to be honest i've never had to do something like that :\
but, at 23 and 5'3, i'm supposed to weigh 125 or something (with my build it means i should be round). i only weigh 110, which means by insurance company standards, i'm not healthy, i'm actually "under weight". or at least by this particular health insurance standards...i'm not super thin, i have curves, and i'm not anorexic, and i agree its all in genetics. both my parents were sticks when they were young, my dad still is. so if groff men always had love handles then thats just how it is.
to have a health insurance company deem you unhealthy is just ridiculous. the only way of actually knowing is seeing a doctor, which pretty much no one can see one without having to pay out the butt unless they have insurance, in which in most cases a copay is required.
i think at one time my parents were with aetna but i thought they merged with cigna. i could be wrong. but regardless, what a crock!
The Body Mass Index has two major flaws that are worthy of not relying on it exclusively. Firstly, the numbers are based on values from the 1940s. Statistically, people have started to get bigger since then. I'm not talking about getting fatter, but physically larger; taller, broader, larger frames, etc. So the numbers aren't as relevant, since they were taken in the post-war, post-depression, save-everything-we-can generation.
Secondly, the BMI just looks at mass versus height. It doesn't consider such factors as how much fat a person has compared to how much muscle. So therefore, a short bodybuilder can technically be considered obese according to the BMI scale, where a tall yet anorexic person can end up in the "normal" range...
For those reasons and more, just lie to your insurance company! The BMI is a lie, anyways!
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but, at 23 and 5'3, i'm supposed to weigh 125 or something (with my build it means i should be round). i only weigh 110, which means by insurance company standards, i'm not healthy, i'm actually "under weight". or at least by this particular health insurance standards...i'm not super thin, i have curves, and i'm not anorexic, and i agree its all in genetics. both my parents were sticks when they were young, my dad still is. so if groff men always had love handles then thats just how it is.
to have a health insurance company deem you unhealthy is just ridiculous. the only way of actually knowing is seeing a doctor, which pretty much no one can see one without having to pay out the butt unless they have insurance, in which in most cases a copay is required.
i think at one time my parents were with aetna but i thought they merged with cigna. i could be wrong. but regardless, what a crock!
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Secondly, the BMI just looks at mass versus height. It doesn't consider such factors as how much fat a person has compared to how much muscle. So therefore, a short bodybuilder can technically be considered obese according to the BMI scale, where a tall yet anorexic person can end up in the "normal" range...
For those reasons and more, just lie to your insurance company! The BMI is a lie, anyways!
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