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| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Ok I went to look at the study itself and it appears your analysis is slightly off. First of all, the definition of obesity and overweight is not broad at all since they used a body mass index of > 25 to define an "overweight" individual and a body mass index of greater than 30 to define an "obese" individual (the same as the US). Translating that into something tangible, a female who is 5ft 6inches (168cm) would have to be approximately 155 lb (70.3kg) to have a BMI of 25. Now I personally would say that’s bordering whale country, but I guess others might like a bit of meat on their girls. Now, a girl of the same height would have to be 185 lb (84kg) to have a BMI of 30. I think I can safely say that a medically obese person is a "whale" in whatever country you're in.
Going back to your point, while it is true in general that you would encounter less “whales” in Europe by factoring out all the “overweight” girls (I would beg to differ on your taxonomy of the Cetacea order … but to each their own), however your specific use of Greece as a comparison was a particularly poor choice. According to the results of the study, if you went to Greece looking for love, you would actually have a 38.1% chance of finding a “whale” whereas you would have a 34% chance in the US.
http://www.iotf.org/media/euobesity3.pdf |
The BMI is essentially flawed though, it only takes a persons weight and height into account doesnt it?
too fully get a persons wegiht you really need to get there body % fat.
The BMI doesnt take into account the fact muscle weighs more then fat.
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