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Old Jun 21, 2016 | 10:43 am
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Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
BMI has long been criticised as not accounting for physique. In casual observation, I do notice the average male in France and Italy are not as muscular and/or bulky on average compared to North American (U.S. and Canada) males. Then again, a lot o males my age in North America how sign of being the aged athlete (bulk from youth + excess weight of middle age)
People often bring that up, but I would go out on a limb and say that it's not the muscular athletic types who tend to drive up a nation's BMI averages.
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