Statements like this are where I part ways with the whole HAES movement BMI is a pretty good predictor of poor health, which is an extremely well-verified fact Weight stigma is awful (from personal experience) but BMI is certainly not its causehttps://twitter.com/theintuitive_rd/status/1223253206848999425 …
I'm basing it on both. The proportion of people with an unhealthy BMI but, for example, a healthy waist circ is very low