Posted on 07/08/2013 9:03:44 PM PDT by dennisw
The problem is big and expanding, for sure that.
Having been there, I was always somewhat surprised it wasn’t #1 already.
I hate the BMI. I went through Marine Corps boot camp in the mid 80’s. We had a lot of obviously strong weight lifters branded as diet privates. I was close on my BMI. If they would have branded me as a diet private I would have told them to stick it up their @$$. Needless to say all the diet privates lost a lot of weight. I think the Corps has changed it’s way it calculates being over weight. I’m not sure how they do it though.
I'm with you. I can't even count the number of times that I've stood behind some able-bodied jag-off in a supermarket line who buys food I can't afford and drives off in a car or truck I can't afford either.
How about a little sympathy for those of us who have to pick up the tab?
I hear that. I went to school with a competitive bodybuilder, and the guy had to be under 10% body fat. He looked like someone chiseled him out of granite. BMI said “obese.” I’ve ignored BMI ever since.
But they need to come here illegally “in order to feed their families”, according to Washington. That’s funny, the stats show their families have no trouble eating in Mexico!
BTW, where is Moo when you need her?
Well, here’s an animated map of obesity rates using a constant definition of “obese” (BMI of 30 or greater) covering the years 1985 to 2010:
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
It’s near the bottom so you have to scroll down some.
Unless there’s a hidden trend in the data that’s skewing people’s mass to height ratios upward, it sure looks to me like people are indeed getting fatter.
Bring ‘em all in so we can pay for their medical expenses from not just obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, lipid abnormalities, heart disease, etc., but also from their genetically high propensity for these diseases.
No argument there. My statement is that the definition of obesity has become so broad and wide that it no longer has the same meaning that it did a generation ago.
That’s what happens when you’re always asking for Samoa & getting it....
What do you call a cannibal who devoured his mother-in-law?
“Gladiator!”
It’s actually in North America, but by journalism standards, I think that’s close enough. They didn’t say it is in Asia.
I see where you’re coming and yes there really are two definitions of obesity. There’s the common one which means people who are extremely fat, and there’s the technical definition that’s used by people who compile health statistics. The latter has started to pop up more and more as people have gotten fatter and the trend towards fatness has attracted more statistical analysis. The problem is that it’s based on a simple formula that tends to capture tall people and especially tall people who are muscular since it doesn’t distinguish between muscle mass and fat mass. That’s how you wind up with a football team whose players are technically obese but who are by no means obese according to the common meaning.
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