I'm with TP on this one. The problem I have is that many insurance companies now use BMI to assess your risk and amend your premium accordingly, with a BMI of 28 I am a health risk, despite being fit, playing lots of sport, cycling and running marathons I am a bad risk, whereas my skinny mate who has never taken excercise in his life is a good risk.

Try arguing with a call centre employee when they tell you your premium has gone up because your over weight......computer says no.......

Forget pinch tests, imersion tests, BMI etc, look in the mirror, are you fat?

[Edited on 7-11-2005 by Herb]

Guys coming offshore have to get regular medicals and panic at the thought of there BMI being too high.

I always explain to them that it is there purely as a guideline, the grouping and bands are too poorly defined to be accurate.

What you need to do is have something more accurate in conjunction with the BMI like a 10 year CHD (Coronary Heart diesease) risk calculation.

That will give you a truer reflection and a rather sobering figure of how likely you are to have a CHD or stroke episode in the next 10 years!

Regards

ScottyB

I understand a professional rugby players' bmi like cohen to be around 10!

depends how long you stand around just trying to look good!:o