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I am not criticizing their diet. Look at their picture: http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/15.jpg http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessa
by jules 16y ago
I am not criticizing their diet. Look at their picture:
http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/15.jpg http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/1...
These people are NOT obese. They are not super lean either, but for their age this looks like a perfectly healthy weight. In fact they are relatively lean compared to the other families.
- sedachv 16y agoLook at photographs of people 60, 80, 100 years ago. The relative perception of obesity in the US is extremely distorted. The average male is 5 feet 9 inches (176cm) and 195 pounds (88 kilograms). That is overweight. The adults in the photo are also overweight.
- jules 16y agoI'm not from the US, and neither are the people we're talking about. These people look like they weigh less than 88 kilograms, which I agree would be obese for 176cm. Are you obese (by your own standards)?
- sedachv 16y agoCan you at least bother to look up the definition of the key words before arguing? Obese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity Overweight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight
- jules 16y agoOh I wasn't aware that there were testable definitions. Then I consider it unlikely that the adults in the German family are either obese or overweight. On what are you basing your claim that their BMI is greater than 25 kgm^-2?
- eru 16y agoAlso BMI is getting phased out in favour of ratio between circumferences of hips and belly. It has much better correlation with lots of diseases than BMI.