The body mass index (BMI) is a diet industry piece of propaganda, as it doesn't take into account body fat percentage, and is arbitrarily changed to support extreme dieting. I've always tried to stay in shape, and have had a low fat percentage since I was in high school, but in order not to be considered overweight by the BMI scale, I'd have to be 30 lbs lower weight than I am now, and at 77 years old I'm already on the lean side, with definite abs, flat stomach and defined muscle structure. If I dropped 30 lbs, I'd look like a famine survivor.

Exactly!
If government gives a number, say 100, then everyone, even those for whom 50 would be adequate, will go for 100.
Result, a good many people will overdose seeing only the government target not their own tastes and needs.

'Reverse rationing'- much the same effect as the rationing of scarce goods.

Interesting. But bear in mind that Obesity can be in the presence or absence of hyperinsulinemia.

Insulin is the deadly culprit. Some fluffy fat people do NOT overproduce insulin. They are really really really good at making more fat cells to store fat.

AND they do not store it as VISCERAL FAT (Fat behind the stomach muscles, surrounding and killing the liver and smashing the organs).

There is GOOD fat and VISCERAL FAT.
Too much of all fat is a problem. But the DAMAGE to your health and longevity is form the Visceral fat, and the NAFLD that results...
Creating the Obese T2D... Which is where all the damage comes from. Decades of HIGH insulin to control their glucose.

Wonder if everyone in the CDC wears a creepy smile like Flip Flop Fauci, whose email proves he tried to cover up funding that Wuhan lab with OUR money.

I know a VA doc (Pulmonology, Emergency Care) who says nearly all of their Covid hospitalizations are obese... number one condition, according to her other than infection, and she thinks there is some PC government action involved in not mentioning it.

Lets see many just hunkered down inside their homes had food and needs delivered continued to sit and watch what was not worth watching on TV, look at Net Flicks boom...do not dare to walk outside for little 19's are falling from the clouds..IF there is a reason for adult and children even obesity these facts along are a large part of the reason!

Great web site! I can get "lost" in it for hours!

The November Biden screwup will be him mandating how many calories we can eat per day.

Did you expect otherwise when President Zero (i.e. Obama) insisted that we be our brother's keepers?

if the CDC says it, it is a lie

See the obesity paradox series at
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/