This depends on where you are. I live in the rural US so it's:
65% morbidly obese
20% overweight
5% healthy weight
10% meth skinny
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How Obese is Your Country?
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This depends on where you are. I live in the rural US so it's:
65% morbidly obese
20% overweight
5% healthy weight
10% meth skinny
Yeah those BMI things crack me up.
According to that a 6'1 230 lb man is "obese".
Those are also pretty typical dimensions for a Linebacker in the NFL. Believe me, an NFL LB is NOT obese.
According to that a 6'1 230 lb man is "obese".
Those are also pretty typical dimensions for a Linebacker in the NFL. Believe me, an NFL LB is NOT obese.
At 6' 177lbs I have a BMI of 24, just a hair under overweight according to this: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm
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Astounding! My country is supposed to be the 2nd place when it comes to corrupt politicians... and now we're the 2nd place in obesity? No wonder I often see whales walking around the streets here, and here I thought I couldn't sink lower...
Yep, the last bit was a bad joke. Seriously, I think it's due time for us to stop producing and consuming (and exporting) tacos, tamales, enchiladas and tequila. People tend to gorge on them. Oh, and we should ban all American junk food, thank you very much
Yep, the last bit was a bad joke. Seriously, I think it's due time for us to stop producing and consuming (and exporting) tacos, tamales, enchiladas and tequila. People tend to gorge on them. Oh, and we should ban all American junk food, thank you very much
So the meth-head that's 6' and weighs 140 is "healthy" but the 6'1 230-lb professional athlete isn't.
Yeah that makes sense.
Yeah that makes sense.
Of course an NFL LB is not obese, but it's pretty easy for a non athletic 6'1", 230 pounder to be carrying 40 or 50 pounds of fat if they don't lift. Most people have far less muscle mass than they think they do.
edit: make that 50 or 60 pounds...
But I promise you, the vast, vast majority of people who fall under those dimensions are not professional athletes.
A psychiatrist I had never seen before (or since) stopped talking about psych issues and proceeded to tell me I was morbidly obese (over 6ft, 220lb), probably diabetic, and will soon die of heart failure (I'm 29).
She then ordered blood work to confirm her diagnoses, which is not at all in her field of study. Blood work says I'm 110% a-okay, and definitely NOT obese/diabetic. Then when I go back to the same psych offices (saw a different doctor), I found out the original psychiatrist made no note of blood work or her other diagnoses.
I think a lot of people like to throw these words around. Most are not qualified to do so. But, yeah, someone who weighs 600lbs weighed 300lbs at some point. It takes dedication to get 800lbs fat.
She then ordered blood work to confirm her diagnoses, which is not at all in her field of study. Blood work says I'm 110% a-okay, and definitely NOT obese/diabetic. Then when I go back to the same psych offices (saw a different doctor), I found out the original psychiatrist made no note of blood work or her other diagnoses.
I think a lot of people like to throw these words around. Most are not qualified to do so. But, yeah, someone who weighs 600lbs weighed 300lbs at some point. It takes dedication to get 800lbs fat.
Yeah, I mean I could do with some toning up a bit but I wouldnt consider myself on the verge of being overweight. And I coulnt imgine myself being 140 lbs.
I was 165 about 5 years ago. Various women all told me I looked better after putting on a few pounds.
Playboy magazine said that a woman at 5"8 and 120 pounds was overweight as well. You are either bone skinny or overweight.
There does have to be SOME threshold for being overweight..at your stats, you may be "overweight" but by a pound or 2 only. In the clinical sense.
Aside from hot air balloons and parasailing we don't have too many people stuck in ours.
Not sure what those two have to do with air quality?
No - but that weight is LESS healthy than a "good" BMI with the same level of fitness.
Being overweight is bad for the body, no matter HOW good of physical condition one is in.
Being overweight and physically fit is better than being ideal weight and not physically fit - but it's worse than being ideal weight physically fit.
Basically:
Physically fit with "good" BMI >>
Physically fit with "bad" BMI >>
NOT Physically fit with "good" BMI >>
NOT Physically fit with "bad" BMI
So the meth-head that's 6' and weighs 140 is "healthy" but the 6'1 230-lb professional athlete isn't.
Yeah that makes sense.
No - chances are that BOTH are sub-optimally healthy.
The meth head would be healthier minus the meth.
The professional athlete would be healthier if they maintained the same level of fitness but lost 50 lbs.
I'm a pretty avid NFL fan ("American football" for our non-U.S. friends), and it's always interesting to see what happens to those players 15 or 20 years down the road.
It seems like either they just keep getting fatter and fatter (often dying prematurely from heart attacks, stroke, diabetes or whatever), or they drop weight and wind up looking remarkably "normal"... which makes you wonder how they got big enough to play pro ball in the first place... but we all know the likely answer to that.
It seems like either they just keep getting fatter and fatter (often dying prematurely from heart attacks, stroke, diabetes or whatever), or they drop weight and wind up looking remarkably "normal"... which makes you wonder how they got big enough to play pro ball in the first place... but we all know the likely answer to that.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=91817
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http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/05/can-you-be-fat-and-fit-or-thin-and-unhealthy/
http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/columnists/article_2f0407e8-fc93-11e1-ae60-0019bb30f31a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...are_overweight_people_less_likely_to_die.html
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http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/05/can-you-be-fat-and-fit-or-thin-and-unhealthy/
http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/columnists/article_2f0407e8-fc93-11e1-ae60-0019bb30f31a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...are_overweight_people_less_likely_to_die.html
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A lot of linemen eat, eat, eat, and then eat some more, to maintain their weight. The starting center for the Bucs used to come into my buddy's restaurant all the time, and eat enough to feed a small family on his own to maintain his playing weight. Brad Culpepper for another example is a former Defensive Tackle/Nose Guard for the Bucs, and now has a personal injury law firm here in the area.
This is a picture of him while active:
And this is a picture of him now.
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Then there are other guys that essentially starve themselves and work their nuts off to maintain a weight.
