How do you know if you are overweight?
Without trying to start a war on what the media considers fat I just saw something interesting that talks about how doctors and the medical profession calculate their numbers for who is considered (overweight, obese )
They use the Body Mass Index. I have heard of it, but never knew how to calculate it before.
In U.S. measurements, its calculated by dividing your weight in pounds divided by your height squared. Multiply that by 703 and you have your very own BMI.
20-25 = Normal
25-30 = Overweight
30+ = Obese
Granted its a simple formula that doesn't really take into account gender, peoples different musculatures and I'm guessing it doesn't work well for the extremely tall or the extremely short, but its an interesting formula.
Might come in handy to help understand stats thrown around in the papers, or when people try applying for health insurance to know what weight they might want target. You may be only a few pounds from the "normal" range if you knew what that was before your health screen. Divide 25 by 703 and multiply it by your height squared to get your "ideal low insurance premium" weight. Ironically, could be the difference of you drinking lots of water that day.
Not sure this works too well for me, since at 6'11 I'd have to be 196-245lbs to be normal, which is obviously far too skinny for my size, but I could shoot for overweight and keep it under 294.
What do you think about this scale? Does it work for you? Is it fair that your insurance depends upon some plug and play system based merely on height and weight?
They use the Body Mass Index. I have heard of it, but never knew how to calculate it before.
In U.S. measurements, its calculated by dividing your weight in pounds divided by your height squared. Multiply that by 703 and you have your very own BMI.
20-25 = Normal
25-30 = Overweight
30+ = Obese
Granted its a simple formula that doesn't really take into account gender, peoples different musculatures and I'm guessing it doesn't work well for the extremely tall or the extremely short, but its an interesting formula.
Might come in handy to help understand stats thrown around in the papers, or when people try applying for health insurance to know what weight they might want target. You may be only a few pounds from the "normal" range if you knew what that was before your health screen. Divide 25 by 703 and multiply it by your height squared to get your "ideal low insurance premium" weight. Ironically, could be the difference of you drinking lots of water that day.
Not sure this works too well for me, since at 6'11 I'd have to be 196-245lbs to be normal, which is obviously far too skinny for my size, but I could shoot for overweight and keep it under 294.
What do you think about this scale? Does it work for you? Is it fair that your insurance depends upon some plug and play system based merely on height and weight?
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Permalink Reply by CorpseQueen on
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bmi is a horrible way to calculate if you are over or under the healthy weight, unless you are of average height and arnt muscular.. a much more accurate way would be to simply look up your healthy weight range for your height..
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Permalink Reply by Giant Mohawk Man on
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Well thats no fun. I love math. ha ha. Also those charts only go to about 6'4, which is again no good. Looks like I will have to be locked in a metabolism chamber for 5 days, thats what they seem to be doing to people on this show for exact analysis.
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one of my diet books goes up to 6'7 which says 175-220 but the chart mixes men and women instead of having seperate charts..so i doubt it to be very accurate. im too lazy to dig out my other book which i know has seprate charts haha
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Permalink Reply by ElCuelloRojo on
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eh, I'm 6' and I got a 21 on this thing. and I'm fuckin skinny. The sad thing is that I'm shooting to eventually put on enough weight where according to this I'd be overweight.
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Ha! well I imagine you are shooting for putting on muscle weight which I'm sure throws this thing off completely. I imagine most MMA fighters must be overweight. It not their win column would be underwhelming.
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because of his height the numbers will be off no matter what..thats why bmi sucks ass!
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Permalink Reply by Juggalo MaggotFace on
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Thank God I don't have to worry about being fat.
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Permalink Reply by Cassy on
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i used one of those hand held things where you enter your age, sex, height, and weight.
mine ended up being twenty, and im five foot one.....
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Permalink Reply by PoisonedByTheReligion on
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Haha, Mine's apperently 17.5.. ehhh?
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Permalink Reply by Nick Vicious on
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damn u skinnny youths....i remember weighin 115 at 18....now im 155 at 21. i look good tho, but im falling into some bad eating (and drinking) habits.
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