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Is BMI really the same for males/females? I always assumed that what is obese/overweight for a 5'9 woman would be different than a 5'9 man.
by dfc 13y ago
Is BMI really the same for males/females? I always assumed that what is obese/overweight for a 5'9 woman would be different than a 5'9 man.
- venomsnake 13y agoBmi is mostly bullshit. Much better indicators for overall health is the amount of belly fat and the fat around the internals organs. Having a lot of fat on the butt/thighs is much less damning than lets say fatty lever.
- dfc 13y agoThanks. I am curious about "lever." Was that a typo or a english-locale dependent noun? I am not trying to be a typo jerk, I produce them constantly, I am just curious what the word is.
- venomsnake 13y agoIts liver ...
- dfc 13y agoThanks for following up. I dont know why liver did not occur to me and I stared at the keyboard before replying.
- MarkTee 13y agoThere have been suggestions that slight differences should be allowed depending on one's race and age, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index