Global Fat

[Herr-Berbunch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328

The good old BBC. Enter your age, gender, height, weight (mass if you're scientific!), and country - you'll get in return your BMI, your difference to national and global average, what nation you're most like someone from, and for a bit of fun - if everyone in the world weighed as much/little as you how much extra/less weight the total population would be.

The country I'm closest to is Tochooo!

I said it's Tongcoughcough!

Alright - it's embarrassingly Tonga! :oops:

But I plan to move to Micronesia to give me some self-esteem. :D

I've shared with the group, now it's your turn.

[AngusJS]

I'm closest to El Salvador, but 7 months ago I would have been closest to Tonga as well.

I hope to never go back.

[Codz]

Central African Republic!:har:

[Dowly]

Congo :88)

[Herr-Berbunch]

That'll be the Finlandia diet. :O:

[Sammi79]

Angola.

To be average in the UK for my height I would have to be 13Kg heavier

I find this pretty surprising since I am not exactly skinny.

[antikristuseke]

I am most like Ethiopia with my 188cm height and 68kg mass.

[MH]

Eritrea:D

70/176

[Sailor Steve]

Poland.

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Iraq :woot:

[Takeda Shingen]

Qatar.

[Penguin]

Croatia...



70/176

:o:o:o

you should really consider to eat a little healthier:


176 kg is waaay too much for 70cm height :D

[Herr_Pete]

Sao Tome and Principe for me :up:

"If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 42,219,837 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population"

[CaptainMattJ.]

when i submitted all the information it said i was above average. :06: Then i realized i had measurements in kilograms :haha:

im 95% lower than the average male in my country and 73% lower than the world, but it says im compare best with people in the Congo. i guess i can feel good about that :)

[kranz]

Germany :har:
(yeah, that counts for being a medium fatass:))

[MH]

Croatia...




:o:o:o

you should really consider to eat a little healthier:


176 kg is waaay too much for 70cm height :D

:har:

[Stealhead]

Yeah baby I am below the US average by 96% and the world average of BMI 83% it says that I am most like a male from Eritrea.Of course I work out doors alot and I also
do 150 pushups first thing in the morning and I am a very picky eater I also eat slowly while many of my friends eat so fast the food could have not flavor and they'd not realize it.

Of course a male with a lot of muscle mass would be high in BMI so he gets taped and if he has low body fat he is healthy they do this in the US military to really muscular people.



Eritrea
6' 2"
155

[Ducimus]

Apparently im a little overweight.

5'10", 198 pounds.
BMI of 28

You have a lower BMI than 52% of males aged 30-44 in your country (Yeah me!)

You have a higher BMI than 84% of males aged 30-44 in the world ( "I'd like a number 5 combo, super sized with a diet coke please")

You're most like someone from United States (yeah that figures)

[STEED]

As I'm on a diet and now 3 stone lighter, I'm ruling myself out on the grounds I'm too busy loosing weight. :yeah:

And the fact bmi index is flawed, a weight lifter would be classed as clinically obese! :huh:

[antikristuseke]

Ofcourse it is flawed, it is too vague to be of any specific use.

[STEED]

Ofcourse it is flawed, it is too vague to be of any specific use.

Maybe...Dr Hibbert's fat test :hmmm: :har:

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jbBJxGBKAIo/0.jpg

[Skybird]

Jamjam.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Just take it for the bit of fun that it is. :O:

[Stealhead]

Ofcourse it is flawed, it is too vague to be of any specific use.

I would not say that it measures mass which would include muscle and bone as well as fat so if you had a lot of muscle mass BMI alone would be incorrect.It is a means of measuring but not the only one and it does not cover all things.You could have a good BMI and have a crap load of bad cholesterol in your body and still have a heart attack.That being said for most people if they have a low BMI they more than likely are skinny as a rail and if they have a high one are as fat as William H. Taft with a dollop of sour cream.

[AngusJS]

I would not say that it measures mass which would include muscle and bone as well as fat so if you had a lot of muscle mass BMI alone would be incorrect.It is a means of measuring but not the only one and it does not cover all things.You could have a good BMI and have a crap load of bad cholesterol in your body and still have a heart attack.That being said for most people if they have a low BMI they more than likely are skinny as a rail and if they have a high one are as fat as William H. Taft with a dollop of sour cream.Exactly. Of course the BMI will say that a weight lifter is obese - but the weight lifter knows he's in good shape just by looking in the mirror, so he shouldn't even bother with it. It's useful for the rest of us, who are overweight.

[Betonov]

I am soo not joining the discusion :shifty:


But this only reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. My mother (as always) was in a bad mood and needed an excuse to jump on my nerves, so she took me to her workplace (laboratory in the local hospital) and she measured my cholesterol.
My bad cholesterol count was lower than hers, altough she's slim and always practicing some low fat diets :D