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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
Posts: 11039
Location: London
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According to this BBC weight test I'm very nearly obese with a BMI of 28.8 Hmmmmm  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43697948_________________Still the official cheeky one 
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm
Posts: 5041
Location: London
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26.9 here - and been heading downwards for the last year - hope to reach target in a 3 - 4 months
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BigRedX
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:33 am
Posts: 667
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I'm at the lower end of "normal".
Unfortunately no longer as elegantly wasted as I was in my 20s...
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timark_uk
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
Posts: 12146
Location: Belfast
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Ha. Healthy. With a BMI of 23.1
All that cake and sugary sweet stuff I eat. Hahaha.
BMI is a steaming pile of horse manure anyway.
Mark
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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Ever since I found out about the BMI in medical school, I've hated how it's been used. It was designed for populations and not for individuals. It ignores waist size which IMO is probably more important. I can't recall whether the cut-offs have been adjusted to take into factor change in human physiology (we're taller and naturally heavier than in the 1800s when the BMI was created).
Having said all that, my BMI is 29, down from the 35 it was about eight years ago.
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm
Posts: 5041
Location: London
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43895508and the beeb have added a bit more information
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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 There was a TV Programme called The Men Who Made You Fat on the BBC a few years ago. It looked at the way various companies drove the path to this kind of thing (it looked at the food industry, as well as the diet industry as well). BMI was invented by American health insurance companies to quickly and easily drop people into categories so they could be assessed for insurance purposes. There was no real health data used, and there was little scientific basis for it either. It was all based on probabilities and statistics. And, yes, this was a good few decades ago too.
These insurance companies have so much clout in the health industry there that they were able to persuade the medical profession to accept it as a way to determine if someone is overweight or not.
There are anomalies. Muscles are heavier than fat, so you could be a fit, healthy person with no excess fat, BUT you could be classed as overweight or obese just because you have batter developed muscles.
Sadly, BMI has stuck, even though it’s just not fit for purpose.
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steve74
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:43 pm
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Location: Manchester
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I don’t need a test to tell me I’m overweight, I’ve got my family to do that 
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Burn_IT
Has a life
Joined: Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:44 pm
Posts: 90
Location: Polesworth
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I'm far more wasted than I was in my early 20's!!!!  _________________I cannot remember the last time I forgot something
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