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These datapoints are a little scary: - Your BMI is 26, which means you are Overweight - Your BMI is lower than 42% of people who submitted this survey - Your
by brown9-2 17y ago
These datapoints are a little scary:
- Your BMI is 26, which means you are Overweight
- Your BMI is lower than 42% of people who submitted this survey
- Your BMI is lower than 63% of 27 year olds
- Your BMI is lower than 39% of people from news.ycombinator.com
Sounds as if the people sampled skew young and overweight.
Tangentially, is there a better metric for something like this besides BMI? I recall some people having issue with BMI as a measurement, since it doesn't account for what your weight is composed of (fat vs muscle content).
edit: for anyone else interested in the shortcomings of BMI, wikipedia seems to have a good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations_and_shortcomings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations_and...
- dustingetz 17y agoits the best easy measurement. if you just want to track your own weight loss (and not compare to others), you can take waist measurements once you reach the point of gaining weight while still losing fat. you can measure body fat % with calipers, but you need to go to a doctor with experience to get a reading with reasonable margin of error. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliper#Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliper#Use
- glymor 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio is more useful for most of the obesity risk factors.