The BMI: a load of government BS

Glenn Reynolds on "junk science":

George W. Bush and I have a problem. According to the government we're overweight, even though both of us work out regularly and pay attention to our diets.

I'm not as fit as Bush, who exercises six times a week: I average three or four times a week. But both of us have Body Mass Indexes over 25. And according to the government, that makes us overweight.

Or maybe it makes the Body Mass Index a load of hooey. I think it is, since it doesn't distinguish between weight that comes from muscle and weight that comes from fat.

Plenty of Americans are overweight. But they're consuming a lot of junk science along with their junk food, and this is just more evidence.

Duh.