75% of Americans to be overweight by 2015

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

"Overweight" is even a loose term.

First, the BMI is entirely flawed because it doesn't take into account muscle mass.
So weightlifters are technically grossly overweight. Maybe even classified as morbidly obese.

I'm a living example of that.. I'm around 6'2" 220 with 15% body fat. There's pretty much no way I'm dropping in healthy BMI range without losing muscle. (And I have lost muscle before in an attempt to lose weight)

The calculations for how much taller people should eat is way off too.. Like most places say I should eat 3000-3500 calories a day to maintain. When I attempted that all I ended up doing was gaining weight, and it made it a lot harder to eat healthy. I do around 2,500 Cals a day now, and work out at the gym 3 days a week (and run the other 4), and feel perfectly fine.

The problem with health information is it tries to generalize everyone too much, and it just makes raw predictions for bigger people. The best thing to do generally is not to over eat anything, try to eat as many 'non-processed' foods as possible, and get active!

Everyone's different though. A healthy weight person looks like a twig to me.

[Perfect Stu]

Originally Posted by TheGame

Everyone's different though. A healthy weight person looks like a twig to me.

Same. With my frame, I would have to look deathly ill to be at my 'recommended weight'. I think my skeleton weighs like...5 pounds less than that.

[manasecret]

Yeah I just calculated my BMI to be almost exactly 25, but then I thought, wait, a simple measurement of body weight doesn't tell me anything about fat or muscle content.

I realize I just repeated what gekk and Typh said, but this is me talking!