Beware of a "journilst" interpreting science.
I'm surprised this jouralist didn't pick up on the fact that the study she used regarding mortality weights for diabetics - has nothing to do with their weight history and how the disease became established. With the acception of a sudden fatal heart attach, weight loss is almost a universal feature in people who have long term illness (like diabetes) before they finally die. Their weight at death therefore is meaningless.
While I'm very skeptical of the author's ability to weigh and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each of the studies she reviewed, I can find agreement with one of her statements - even though it's a colossal understatement,"BMI is like a blunt instrument."
The human body is three dimensional, not two as the BMI would have it's users believe. To think and adopt a BMI to assess someones optimal weight and or health based on a two dimensional calculation (weight and height) not only defies basic mathematics, but it is a revealing and very negative professional, educational, and intellectual self-description regarding the overall scientific incompetency of the medical industry, gov. medical agencies and the Docs. that use a two dimensional BMI.
