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Look 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 (1
by sedachv 16y ago
Look 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.