More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
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More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
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Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#2Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#3Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
Is an average way to determine it but a good and quick estimation even if +-10%
Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#4Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
The irony of the BMI is the more I workout to stay in the healthy range, the more difficult it is to stay in the healthy range. Best bet is to sit around not eating anything to be 'healthy' according to BMI.
Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#5Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
Yeah I came here to say the same thing.
I’m 6’8” and if I were within the suggested range, I would be 227 pounds. I’ve been that weight and when I look at pictures of myself at that weight, I always think I look dangerously thin.
BMI is a far too simple a measure to be helpful.
Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#6Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
It seems correct to a first order of approximation for the general population. What is your objection?
I know people who lift weights regularly can have high BMI but low body fat. But until those people make up a large share of the population, I would think BMI is still an OK general measure.
Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#7Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
I would say it is useful only to gauge obesity in a large population (where only a marginal percentage has such a high muscle mass that a high BMI does not represent obesity).
Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#8Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
Why? It can be inaccurate for individuals because it can show lean but muscular people as overweight, but those people are a tiny fraction of the population.
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#9Is "healthy at every size" still a fringe movement, or is it gaining more social acceptance?
Re: More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
#10Using the BMI to gauge obeseness of a population is very lazy and disingenuous.
Accurate body fat tests either require expensive equipment or training to use. The inaccurate method those cheap bathroom scales use would probably be good enough to detect trends but if we're just going to detect trends: why not stick with BMI that's accurate enough for that purpose and way cheaper/easier to use? There aren't that many people with overweight BMIs that aren't overweight. Maybe it could be slightly better to change methods, but it's not like it would be orders of magnitude better.
-Someone with a BMI of 28 (smack in the middle of overweight) and a 6pack