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Gwynvyd -> BMI is Bull Sh*t (4/1/2008 2:44:35 PM)
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So many people and Dr's base the health on this BMI concept...
First of all BMI means Body Mass Index.
It is a statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height. As such, it is useful as a population measure only, and is not appropriate for diagnosing individuals. It was invented between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics".
Body mass index is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of their height. The formulas universally used in medicine produce a unit of measure of kg/m 2
BMI can also be determined using a BMI chart, which displays BMI as a function of weight (horizontal axis) and height (vertical axis) using contour lines for different values of BMI or colors for different BMI categories.
So it was made by a Belgian Math Geek back in 1830... ( body types and sizes were much different then) and it was not even invented to measure the health of a person.. or "how fat or thin" they were.
The Pharmaceutical companies all have diet pills in the works.. and some on the market that make having an "Obesity Epidemic" quite conveinent. Also conveinent are these fad diets where if they dont work.. you blame the fat ass for not "sticking with it" or for having "low will power".
Some people are healthy at a low weight some are healthy at a higher weight. People and thier bodies vary. Measuring yourself against this outdated never ment to be used in this manner chat is ubsurd.
Here is a pictoral illustration of the BS. http://flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/sets/72157602199008819/ Esp look at Shauna in the red shirt. She doesnt look fat to me. Shannon in the corset is freakin hot.. but "obese", page 2 Jessica is one hot overweight Triathlete! and shows again that the stupis assed chart does not account for bone or muscle mass. She is one muscular chickie.. look at them thighs.. damn.
According to this chart most of us unless supermodel thin would be fat fucks.
According to BMI Brad Pitt is over weight and George Clooney is Obese. Do they look like fat bastards to you?
until 1998, a BMI of 27.8 or less was considered to be healthy in the United States until it was changed to another arbitrary number (25) to come into line with the World Health Organization.
Yo yo weight loss does much more damage then just being fat and happy. It places too much strain and stress on your organs.
http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000052/005243.htm
Writing in the Lancet medical journal, the researchers from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, found that patients with a low BMI had a higher risk of death from heart disease than those with normal BMI.
At the same time overweight patients had better survival rates and fewer heart problems than those with a normal BMI.
This apparently perverse result, drawn from data from 40 studies covering 250,000 people with heart disease, did not suggest that obesity was not a health threat but rather that the 100-year-old BMI test was too blunt an instrument to be trusted.
http://www.aphroditewomenshealth.com/news/bmi_lie.shtml
And the people dying in the Obesity epidemic? yeah.. that is bullshit too.
The 2004 scare-stats put out by the Centers for Disease Control - that 400,000 deaths in the US were caused annually by obesity - were flawed to the point of deliberate lying. They measured how many of the people who died in the given year - died at all; in car crashes, of Lyme's disease, in bar fights, whatever, it didn't matter, they were all lumped in there - were obese, and then lumped all the deaths of obese people in as death from obesity. It's roughly analogous to saying that a smoker who dies in a cholera outbreak died of smoking. They may have been trying to give people a wake-up call but it's shockingly untruthful.
The only one I know who died of obesity *might* have been Mama Cass... but some say it was a chicken salad sandwich. (bloody wankers at the Pharmaceutical companies trying to make us all buy into the bullshit.. they had a lot of you fooled didnt they?)
So set down the tape measurers step off the scales.. back away from the ledges... eat a healthy sensible meal.. walk your dog.. or get some exercise... and be happy. If you are a fat bastard.. be a happy fat bastard. Fuck em.
I will save a spot for you in my booth at the Chinese Buffet.
Gwyn,
A happy size 18~ hippy, curvaceous, and fuck em all if they dont like it.
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