TheAgitator.com
The most fit president in U.S. history…
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005…is still overweight according to his own government’s standards.
Critics of critics of the BMI often counter such claims by saying they’re aberrations — that when we talk about how the government classifies world-class athletes as “obese,” we’re being disingenous because most people don’t have the muscle mass of world-class athletes.
But the president isn’t a world-class athlete. He’s a guy who exercises six times per week. He is exactly what the government says we should aspire to. And yet the government still says he’s overweight. Which means if we all worked out as often as the government says we should, we’d probably add to the government’s overweight and obesity statistics, not subtract from them. Which means the statistics are wrong. Which means 2/3 of Americans probably aren’t “overweight,” as we’ve been told.
Which means that all of these calls for drastic government intervention are overwrought.
The Presidential BMI
Radley Balko points out some amusing little facts about the US government’s addiction to Body Mass Index measurements and the current President: Critics of critics of the BMI often counter such claims by saying they’re aberrations — that when we…
Follow-up to "The Far Side (or 'The Impotence of Being Earnest')"
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YOU LOOK FAT IN THOSE WORKOUT CLOTHES
As Radley Balko points out, it’s more than a little ridiculous to think that George W. Bush is obese. And yet, according to U.S. government Body Mass Index standards, overweight he is. The absurdity of this conclusion is just mind-boggling….