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Re: 75% of Americans to be overweight by 2015
Old 08-01-2007, 03:49 PM   #1
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BMI is long outdated and was never designed to determine whether or not someone is overweight. It's retarded.

Fact of the matter is most of these overweight people are only considered overweight by a few pounds.
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Old 08-01-2007, 03:51 PM   #2
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BMI is long outdated and was never designed to determine whether or not someone is overweight. It's retarded.

Fact of the matter is most of these overweight people are only considered overweight by a few pounds.
"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.
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Old 08-02-2007, 07:15 AM   #3
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"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.
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Re: 75% of Americans to be overweight by 2015
Old 08-02-2007, 02:06 PM   #4
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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.
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