No question about it. From a public-health/fitness perspective, muscular folks w/visible abs are always gonna get short shrift with any mass-market body assessment solutions... because hey, eyeballing alone probably works fine.

It's funny too - based on the website, they know way more about spanking-related kink or erotica than the average reader here, too.

Good point on error rate. DEXA is actually overkill for most untrained folks.

There was a funny "Savage Love" letter a few weeks back, about a submissive who was tying his dominant partner's shoelaces at a gym.

If it's not erotic, they're leaving an awful lot on the table, no?

Christian Kink has arrived, no doubt. It's kinda funny... not least 'cause they're so well versed in the kink vernacular, it seems. (I had to look up "bratting" to see what it even was.)

BMI doesn't yield the same output as DEXA or other body-comp (e.g., dunk tank) analyses at all.

I'm thinking of the motivational-interviewing literature on weight loss, for example.

I have a friend at Walkscore (who give Zillow the data)... if they're including 7-11s in the index, I'll give him endless grief. That's absurd.

If a faster, more mass-market version of DEXA were available for $50 or so, insurers would be well-served by picking up the cost for annual scans, as it'd transform the ability of docs to talk to patients about weight, fat and fitness in terms they could understand.

You under-estimate the rate of change.

The resulting Lindy screed should be quite epic.

True, but only insofar as exercise shifts the body-fat ratio down and muscle mass upward... leaving weight less prone to change (for non-obese subjects).

Walkability is huge in the same circles as shopping at Whole Foods.

Fashion is interesting over any time horizon... I was picking up on the "compared to previous generations" line in article's lede, I guess.

Anyone familiar with Serena press conferences could have predicted this whole thing.

I agree it's not a linear/two-dimesional process - but there's probably more circularity than we credit as well.

I found it infallible yet confusing.

"Shifting away from the polar opposite" seems like an awfully coy way of saying "shifting toward".

"... you know how to take (and construct) a joke.."... or something similar, right?