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Losing the battle of the bulge : canada | The Canada armed forces is fatter than the general population! And redditors cope about BMI instead of addressing it!

https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1iidke0/losing_the_battle_of_the_bulge_having_a_worse/

								

								

They are using BMI to come to this conclusion. The index which puts heavily muscled people in the obese category...

No. That literally does not happen. You need to be roided to the gills eating 6 full meals a day and working out nonstop to even get close to being obese via muscle.

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This guy gets it.

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Him too. Preach!

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This article is complete bullshit. As a former CAF member myself, I know there are some people who are overweight, but they have never pushed fitness more than they are now. They have also made the meals they provide much more healthy. If they are using data from our medicals they are strictly using BMI. If they are using data from our fitness tests, they are only taking into account waist circumference. Either way, they aren't a good indicator. I can guarantee the forces are in better shape now than at any point in my 20 year career.

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Nailed it. Unit PT is basically dead like the dinosaurs especially outside of combat arms. CAF members are filling three roles each because of staffing and people are surprised that fitness standards have slipped.

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If they are using data from our fitness tests, they are only taking into account waist circumference

Fellow dramanauts, what exercise should I be doing to grow my waist?

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you beat me to it lol

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Even if you are in the obese category due to solely muscle mass that is still really bad for your body and heart lmao

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Exactly. BMI may not correlate accurately with body fat percent for a tiny fraction of the population (<.5%) who are hardcore body builders (and no, the army isn't full of bodybuilders either), but guess what? They're still fricking unhealthy too. So, even if it's for a different reason, BMI still accurately selects them as being headed for bad health outcomes.

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I can guarantee the forces are in better shape now than at any point in my 20 year career.

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