Personal Health – Body Mass Index Can Be Misleading – NYTimes.com.

Some interesting information in this NYT article — and also part of what I was talking about before — that middle age spread that we see creep up. I have personally never been a fan of the BMI metric. I think there are many factors that should be used to see whether someone is ‘fit’. BMI can be a useful tool in an arsenal of tools and information that should be used to evaluate whether someone is fit or not but not THE tool.

A frequent question among people of a certain age, including yours truly, is “Why, when I weigh the same as or less than I did when I was younger, does my waist keep getting bigger?” Phrased another way, the question could be “Why, when my body mass index has not changed, am I fatter than I used to be?”