Body Mass Index

[Guest]

Agreed Death - there shouldn't be a lot of room for error for most people but for seriously fat people they could be waaay off. "The Biggest Loser" show features women as high as 170kg and men as heavy as 195kg without being that tall.<br />
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Also complicating this is that even obese people who can still move under their own power tend to have a fair bit of muscle, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to move at all. The muscle might be marbled like prime beef but its still there. The ultimate problem is, as with BMI, they're going off assumptions of what the [i]average[/i] humans surveyed come out at, and don't necessarily take into account the skeletal structure of a person, which under all that fat is bloody hard to measure even though the density remains the same.

[mark_s]

A quick update, apparently BMI has been adopted by all insurance companies because the reinsurers have adopted it.<br />
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Anyway I am still discussing my case with and they are starting to look at other measures and are considering giving me a separate medical.  No guarantees yet though and they are reserving the right to fall back on the BMI as grounds for rejecting me.

[Guest]

Go in there and challenge any of their execs to a live scrummaging session. That'll see how fit the bastards are <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

[mark_s]

The agent would love this idea, he is South African ad we end up talking rugby for 3/4 of the time when he calls me.

[Guest]

Yeah BMI is a load of crap, the bad thing is some insurance companies use it so 'obese' people like us have to pay higer premiums

[Kirwan]

Bring in the stats for All Blacks and ask them to explain why they are considered obese.

[BartMan]

here a link for some cool things<br />
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[url="http://www.bmi-calculator.net/"]http://www.bmi-calculator.net/[/url]<br />
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I would burn  2137.68 calories if I lay in bed all day doing nothing.<br />
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I am also in the obese range.  31.something. <br />
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Reckon I have a bodyfat percentage of 16.3.  based on my weight and waist measurement.  That mewasurement is not in the obese category, but in the fitness category.

[Guest]

33.77 (Obese class 1) even with my recent weight loss <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> At my absolute peak a couple of years back I was nearly 39 <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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If WHEN I get to my goal weight I'll be 29.83, just short of obese, and probably fitter and stronger than every bastard who designed the BMI <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

[BartMan]

36.12 at my heaviest.  whit was 118kg.  now at a sevete 103, but still obese....  :nta

[Guest]

We should rename it the Bullshit Mass Indicator <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

[Kirwan]

[quote]You have a BMI of 27.82.<br />
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BMI is between 25 and 29.9 (Overweight)[/quote]<br />
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Am I fuck. Best shape I've been in ages. I can just pich an inch of fat around my waist.

[dogmeat]

32.99 so the BMI is bs all ends up coz I'm as out of shape as I've ever been. I also appear to have discovered a new body shape.  I'm neither pear or apple - more like 40 gallon drum.