You might have heard that BMI is not an accurate measurement of one’s health outcomes. This is true; not only can this faulty scale register muscular people as obese, but it also doesn’t really seem to be good at its sole job of “determining healthy weights.”

For example, multiple studies have found that those in the “overweight” category actually have a lower mortality than people in the “normal” category — and those in the “grade 1 obese” category had the same mortality as the “normal” category as well.

So, the system is broken. But if the system is truly broken, surely someone can fix it, right?

Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that someone developed a new system for determining obesity. The bad news is that, according to its definition, pretty much everyone is obese.

Earlier this year, the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission released a new definition of obesity. Rather than just using BMI, this new definition incorporates measurements of body fat distribution as well.

Using this new definition, researchers from Mass General Brigham applied the definition to the general population and found that, oops, basically everyone in this country is obese. Seriously — 70% of the adult population meets the standard. For people over the age of 70, that number was almost 80%.

What are we supposed to do with this information? I don’t know. Anyway, who wants to come to Five Guys with me? I think I’m going to get a milkshake with Oreo mix-ins!