Inaccurate determination of a person being fat or underweight may lead to many social and personal problems. Especially in the case of women, there is a social standard for a woman to have a desirable body shape which has changed multiple times over the few centuries. To achieve this specific set of “desirable” body characteristics they go through serious mental and social pressure and may acquire eating disorders and other diseases.

BMI being an unreliable method often hampers the mass study of other diseases affected by the body fat to muscle ratio. Some studies show that people with higher BMI have a higher risk of diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke, and such non-communicable disease. Even though these studies were conducted on a mass number of people while not taking the family history of a disease, ethnicity, food habit, or other factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, etc. into consideration.

At the end of the day, studies concerning the accuracy of BMI are still undergoing none of the results so far are set in stone. But one thing is for sure, that is having an excessively high BMI increases the probability of multiple diseases, social problems and can be limiting to one’s way of life. So leading a healthy lifestyle is always the right choice.