Notion of "overweight" is way off

Everywhere you hear that Americans are very "overweight", but are they just using height, weight and age to arrive at the BMI that defines whether you are overweight or obese? I tried Wii Fit the other day and it put my BMI in the unhealthy high end, which I thought was funny, because how accurate can this be without a measurement of fat vs muscle?

I can run a 6 minute mile and do 12 pullups. I eat healthy, get tons of exercise, all around I'm very healthy, yet according to simplistic BMI calculators I'm extremely unhealthy. If you do it the right way (with fat fold calipers) I'm like 17% bodyfat, yet I'm 26% if you just use these silly height vs weight vs age government charts. I wonder if the nation's struggle with obesity is total BS, they're just measuring BMI wrong.

 

Um. I am pretty sure there are a lot of fat people around. Any obesity is a problem, regardless of how many people are actually obese.

 

I'm just wondering how they measure it.

 

You just keep telling yourself that you aren't a fatty.... haha