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The fat end of normal is most certainly not "objectively" overweight. BMI is a fairly flawed system, created during a time of hardship without sufficient demogr
by giantg2 3y ago
The fat end of normal is most certainly not "objectively" overweight. BMI is a fairly flawed system, created during a time of hardship without sufficient demographic/physiological diversity.
I'm the "fat end of normal" and nobody has ever consisdered calling me fat. Once you get over 6' the BMI chart gets absurd, assumingly due to physiological differences in population from then and now. Take someone who is 6'3". 150-190 lbs is "normal". If most people saw a 150 lb 6'3" man, they'd say they look emaciated. I would guess that most 6'3" men who look fit still weigh over 190lbs.
- tekla 3y agoThis is just a byproduct of Americans becoming so fat that "normal" is now considered "hilariously underweight" > 6'3". 150-190 lbs is "normal" Yes, that is normal. Go to other countries that have tall people, and most of them will easily fall into that range. Americans as a whole are INCREDIBLY overweight in general.
- pwthornton 3y ago6'3, 150 would be very lanky and thin looking. I'm 6'1, and my lean mass is more than that.
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoThat's three pounds away from being underweight, so obviously it's pretty skinny.
- giantg2 3y agoSo in one comment you consider the top end this range (c 180-190) to be objectively overweight, yet now you call it normal?
- hotpotamus 3y ago6'1" here and I can speak to this as well. I've straight up had women tell me I look worse at 175 than around 190 (and looking at pictures of myself at different weights, I'd say I looked skinny even thought 175 is still above the midline of normal BMI). Technically the line is right at 189; 188 is normal weight and 189 is overweight so I try and just ride the top of normal and focus on being fit.
- wiredfool 3y agoobjectively is the new IMHO.
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