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UK has the fattest women

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Have they taken account of our WLG 30+stone weight loss in their stats Steff?🙄🙂
 
toby said:
Notice they are using BMI to calculate the numbers🙄
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I'm not sure of the statement in the article. "The BMI correlates fairly well with body fat"; isn't the BMI predicated on the assumption of a certain fat/muscle ratio, making the above something of a circular argument? Indeed, from what I've heard muscular types tend to false-positive as overweight if only the raw BMI is measured, and not the actual proportion of fat in the body, as muscle weighs more than fat.
 
Having read the rest of the article, a gramatical error leapt out at me; "20.9% fulfilled that criteria". This should be "that criterion"; "criteria" is plural.

Things like that don't give me confidence in what I'm reading. 🙄
 
Many with an athletic build are said to be obese going by BMI, what it doesn't take into account is muscle mass and this weighs much heavier than fat so gives you a false reading.
 
toby said:
Many with an athletic build are said to be obese going by BMI, what it doesn't take into account is muscle mass and this weighs much heavier than fat so gives you a false reading.
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Yes, that's right. Apparently a better way to find out if you're obese, is to measure your waist. I can't remember what the waist is supposed to be though.
 
Monica said:
Yes, that's right. Apparently a better way to find out if you're obese, is to measure your waist. I can't remember what the waist is supposed to be though.
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According to my trousers it's 32" for men, since my 34" belly cascades over the top like a well-baked muffin :D I refuse to buy new trousers though - determined they will fit properly before the end of the year! 🙂
 
Northerner said:
According to my trousers it's 32" for men, since my 34" belly cascades over the top like a well-baked muffin :D I refuse to buy new trousers though - determined they will fit properly before the end of the year! 🙂
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Good luck with that 🙂 I might give healthy snacking another go in the new year. This is NOT a new year's resolution though😛
 
the best way, rather than using the BMI way is to test your body fat (not entirely sure how accurate they are) BUT they do take into account muscle and bone structure, which BMI does not.

According to the NHS lovely charts and BMI, I need to lose 3 stone....I'm a size 10/12 - I think I'd be admitted to hospital if I lost 3 stone, and yet it doesn't stop the professionals telling me I need to be within their guidelines!! 😡

there will never be one answer....there's always going to be exceptions to every way of measuring this. We just have to look at the bigger picture.
 
sorry, that's all IMO - I don't actually have scientific evidence lol just body fat percentage seems to make much more sense to me!
 
Body fat % does make more sense - but it's more complicate to measure. Instead of measuring height (without shoes) on a wall mounted height measure and weight (ideally without shoes and outdoor clothing) on a simple scale (height and weight can be done in any order before calculating BMI), you need to measure height, then input this into a specialised scale which must be stood on in bare feet (or can use water to get contact through nylon tights - anything thicker must be removed).
 
I had one done at the gym that you hold onto and it sends electric currents round your body to determine the body fat percentage.... nice and easy 🙂

Surely the surgeries could get these so they can check people's body fat??
 
cherrypie said:
This might help. All you need is a tape measure.
http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/diet.html
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Thanks cherrypie, this is what I got:

Body Mass Index: 24.3 kg/m2
Waist-to-Height ratio: 0.50
Percent Body Fat: 19.0%
Lean Body Mass: 131.2 lb

Your weight is in the normal range.
You may need to lose some abdominal fat.
Minimum caloric requirements: 2211 Calories per day
Your diet should contain at least 105 grams of protein per day.

Not entirely sure I'm getting through 105g of protein a day, seems an awful lot! 😱
 
Having spent 2 years of my life working on research projects, one measuring children aged around 7 years and their mothers, the other on adults in various studies, I can assure you that getting accurate measures of human bodies does require proper equipment and skilled operators. You can't measure yourself accurately; someone else really does have to ensure correct angle of head and read the height measure (nearly everyone gains 1 - 2 cm in height when measured correctly) and hold the tape measure in the right place. The waist measure used in human anthropometry isn't waistband of trousers or skirt, it's half way between top of iliac crest and bottom of ribs, which takes a bit of prodding to find, and is more difficult the chubbier the person being measures.

Body composition scales aren't cheap - several hundred pounds for a Tanita that you stand on, for example, and even more for one on which you hold the handles as well. A Leicester Height Measure (accurate, plastic, can be folded up to be carried around) costs over ?60. If a height rule is attached to a wall, it must be a vertical wall - you'd be surprised how unvertical are some walls even in new buildings, plus the room needs to be available at all times - not ideal to have people walking around between rooms / corridors to various scales / measures, plus you need a chair nearby if they have to take shoes off at the scale, then put them on again to walk away.
 
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