Just for good measure
But I can stop any time I want to.
I think the earlier challenges in comprehensive diagnosis came from the difficulty in getting results from patients. BMI is so easy it's automatic.
Meanwhile, getting body fat percentage required calipers or an intensive water displacement test. The distribution of body fat is never concrete; when does back fat stop and butt fat begin? Then, negative physiological effects of these two is the third indicator. Those need a host of diagnoses.
We are moving to a time when getting those figures has never been easier and thus could have never before been done on a large scale.
He was showing me a caliper he brought home from work and I asked him this.
Me: "What do you even use that caliper for? Are you taking over the world on thousandths of an inch at a time?"
Dad: "Yes. They call me the Inch Worm."
