I want to tell you a true story that I share often with my…

I want to tell you a true story that I share often with my patients, because it perfectly illustrates a mistake we make far too often in medicine and in everyday life. There was an Indian bodybuilder named Prem Chandra who became Mr. Universe in 1988, one of the very few Indians to ever achieve that title. Years later, he applied for a job at a major Indian company. As part of the medical examination, a junior doctor checked his BMI. His weight was over 90 kilograms, almost entirely muscle and bone, and his height was just 1.7 metres. His calculated BMI came out above 30. The junior doctor rejected him. Classified as obese. Deemed unfit to join. It took the intervention of his trainer and a senior doctor to explain that this "obese" man was, in fact, one of the most physical