Is Your BMI An Accurate Indicator Of Being Overweight?
Aug
01
After learning about the obesity rates by country, JJ and I decided to see what our BMI’s were. We used the National Institute Of Health’s online BMI calculator and inserted our heights and weights. We learned that I am in the normal range and according to this tool JJ is overweight. Hold the Leptitrex because I do not believe that JJ is overweight and if you saw him you probably wouldn’t think he’s overweight either. Besides he is a lot more fit than I am, I think fitness has a lot more to do with health than weight. I also think that testing people’s body fat percentage would be a better indicator of showing if someone is overweight than checking their BMI.
Of course JJ has not let his BMI results offend him and is enjoying making jokes about his ‘fatness’ of course I don’t like it when he makes those jokes because I do not belive that he is fat.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I think BMI indicates overweight but not fat. I read that bodybuilders and atheletes are overweight–even obese–under the Body Mass Index. Yet an out-of-shape office worker who is rapidly gaining dangerous mid-section fat (linked to heart disease) may be calculated as normal weight under the BMI.
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August 7th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Personally, I think BMI is just an indicator but not an absolute measure…..I talk like as if I’m an expert *laugh* nah! I’m not!….just an opinion…
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