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Thinking obesity is one number is as dumb as thinking intelligence is one number. Card counting used to be one number, till they realized how much better two nu
by Syzygies 4y ago
Thinking obesity is one number is as dumb as thinking intelligence is one number. Card counting used to be one number, till they realized how much better two numbers did. Yet in this day of smart phones, one still sees geriatricians calculating stroke risk using a rule they can do in their heads. I'd rather trust my health care to prediction markets, if we could work through the data privacy issues.
So where's the BMI table that asks height and "how wide are your shoulders?"
For some of us, "big boned" isn't a euphemism.
- tayo42 4y agoThere's body fat percentage, you can calculate this with calipers or in a pool. Even the body builder with a high bmi thing isn't that healthy. It's tough to be large.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoBody building at a professional level is extremely unhealthy because everyone is on an elephant dose of steroids and growth hormones. It’s probably the worst life outlook of profesional sports - much worse than just playing video games at home
- lm28469 4y ago> BMI You don't need to look at BMI, or any number besides fat % for that matter, to see we have a massive fucking issue. If your belly protrudes far enough that you can't see your own feet, big boned or not, you're obese Obesity is BMI 30+, unless you're a semi-pro/pro athlete or have genetic defects at 30+ BMI you're definitely fat af, here are examples of 30 BMI: https://www.lipedema.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Obesity-BMI-Lipedema-v2-1.png https://www.lipedema.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Obesity-... There is absolutely no chance you have a 30+ BMI because of "big bones"
- pengaru 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCOn7zS6b8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCOn7zS6b8c
- slowmovintarget 4y agoX-rays clearly show that "big-boned" has very little to do with whether you're overweight or not.
- daveliepmann 4y ago>So where's the BMI table that asks height and "how wide are your shoulders?" It sounds like you want the Body Shape Index = waist circumference / BMI^2/3 x height^1/2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_shape_index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_shape_index