The Presidential BMI

Radley Balko points out some amusing little facts about the US government's addiction to Body Mass Index measurements and the current President:

Critics of critics of the BMI often counter such claims by saying they're aberrations — that when we talk about how the government classifies world-class athletes as "obese," we're being disingenous because most people don't have the muscle mass of world-class athletes.

But the president isn't a world-class athlete. He's a guy who exercises six times per week. He is exactly what the government says we should aspire to. And yet the government still says he's overweight. Which means if we all worked out as often as the government says we should, we'd probably add to the government's overweight and obesity statistics, not subtract from them.