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22 at average western height is a perfectly healthy weight. A typical male weighing 70kg at a height of 1.80m has basically no excessive fat and a BMI of 21.6.
by foepys 4y ago
22 at average western height is a perfectly healthy weight.
A typical male weighing 70kg at a height of 1.80m has basically no excessive fat and a BMI of 21.6.
What BMI needs is a more refined scale for different kinds of humans.
- kazinator 4y agoSorry, to clarify; the overweight tipping point might be found somewhere in the range 22-25, not that this is to be the overweight range. If this hypothetical person puts on 10 kg of fat, that almost brings him to 25. Say 5 kg is overweight, 10 kg the start of obesity. Looks reasonable.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoSeems kind of unreasonable that one can go from "normal" to "obese" by putting on 10kg. Feels like that's just removing the entire overweight range. The idea that 25 should be where obesity starts is frankly absurd.
- kazinator 4y agoWhy should there be a large overweight range of more than some 6-8 kg (for that 1.8 m height)? That just sounds like fat acceptance. 10 kg is like a toddler.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoWhy should there be a large obese range (80kg to infinity), but a tiny overweight range of 5kg? What is even the point of the overweight range in that context? It's not fat acceptance. Being overweight is still unhealthy.
- kazinator 4y agoWhen a parameter switches between radically different interpretations along its value range, it's sometimes useful to have a reasonable transition area to eliminate the abrupt change. You know, like a yellow light between green and red.
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