40% Of US adults Obese

[fleshconsumed]

My BMI is 28.5. I'm so obese.

One, 28.5 BMI is overweight, not obese. Two, be honest, how many people look like you? I would guess 5% tops, for the other 95% of the people BMI is a totally valid metric to use. You're an exception, not the norm.

 

[shortylickens]

I'M NOT FAT!
I'M BIG BONED!

 

[highland145]

I'M NOT FAT!
I'M BIG BONED!

We do not need to know what olds did to you.

 

[PricklyPete]

One, 28.5 BMI is overweight, not obese. Two, be honest, how many people look like you? I would guess 5% tops, for the other 95% of the people BMI is a totally valid metric to use. You're an exception, not the norm.

Exactly. It only takes a moment of looking around to know that the majority of Americans are not muscular, so BMI is valid enough for the majority and this statistically relevant.

 

[sandorski]

Y'all need more Heroin in your diet.

 

[purbeast0]

Exactly. It only takes a moment of looking around to know that the majority of Americans are not muscular, so BMI is valid enough for the majority and this statistically relevant.

My point is just that you can't throw BMI out there as if it works for everyone. I bet you it also matters what state/city you are taking the numbers from too. I bet you the percentage of people who have high BMI and are actually fat/obese in the south like Alabama compared to California is a lot different.

People are just lazy as shit now a days and that's the reason they are fat. Them not wanting to put effort into making a healthy meal and would rather go buy Burger King is because they are lazy.

 

[PricklyPete]

My point is just that you can't throw BMI out there as if it works for everyone. I bet you it also matters what state/city you are taking the numbers from too. I bet you the percentage of people who have high BMI and are actually fat/obese in the south like Alabama compared to California is a lot different.

People are just lazy as shit now a days and that's the reason they are fat. Them not wanting to put effort into making a healthy meal and would rather go buy Burger King is because they are lazy.

My response was that it is statistically relevant even if it does not apply to a few outliers like bodybuilders. Could we use a more complex test that is more accurate ...sure. Will it enhance the results statistically...probably not at all. So what would the benefit be when measuring the health of a large pool of people? Now if the argument is over whether your doctor should be using that number as her sole basis for determining your chance of getting diabetes...obviously that doctor would suck. But we are not talking about how a doctor individually treats a patient, but about health trends in our society. BMI is more than acceptable for a “health trend” discussion.

I totally agree with you on why people are getting fat. And yes, there probably is some variability of how accurate BMI is based on region, but ultimately BMI is a accurate enough tone statistically significant. And what it is showing is a hat we are getting fatter at a ridiculous rate.

 

[brianmanahan]

Y'all need more Heroin in your diet.

i tell you what, i used to be on this medicine that was amazing for losing weight.

i never wanted to eat anything so i dropped over 60 pounds in like 9 months. no real working out, just not eating much. it was awesome.

and then i stopped being able to eat anything because i would just throw it up. dropped another 10 pounds in a week.

after that week the doctor made me use a different med

 

[msi1337]

I am not fat, I am festively plump

 

[FeuerFrei]

Chia seed can help abate hunger. Of course you're eating tiny seeds, but they swell up when wet, becoming gelatin balls. Moar filling.

I am not fat, I am festively plump

Pleasingly plump

 

[sandorski]

Chia seed can help abate hunger. Of course you're eating tiny seeds, but they swell up when wet, becoming gelatin balls. Moar filling.


Pleasingly plump

So can Pizza.

 

[FeuerFrei]

So can Pizza.

I recommend chia for minimum input with maximum effect. Nothing beats swallowing something to suppress appetite.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Hmmmm... 6'3" 215-220, heavy bone structure, overly sedentary, no muscle mass puts me ~27 BMI. I need to get down to ~185, that's 30-35 pounds which is pretty overweight imo. That 40% of people are seriously fatties is frickin nuts. I wonder what that number is for adults under 40 or 50.

 

[highland145]

I recommend chia for minimum input with maximum effect. Nothing beats swallowing something to suppress appetite.

Pizza does that.

 

[clamum]

I want to be a fatty :-(

 

[CalebRockeT]

I am obese and wish I had never been born.

 

[BD231]

I need a fuck ton of energy personally, still trying to figure out how to stay juiced without coffee but it ain't workin .... feel all sluggish slow and fat.

Back to coffee lyfe ... and whatever other non-caloric forms of energy i can find.

 

[BD231]

Nothin quite matches up to tha cocaine, its no easy replacement lemmetell yuh. Id go a week without food often

 

[ponyo]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/13/health/adult-obesity-increase-study/index.html

Yep, it’s just the genes. Definitely not the copious amount of sh!t we are collectively shoveling down our pie holes.

Genes play a huge role. It's the same with teeth. You can brush your teeth 3 times a day but if you have shitty genes, you're going to have cavities and teeth problems. Meanwhile, person with good genes can practice terrible oral hygiene and hardly brush their teeth and never have cavities.

But good genes can only help so much. Overeating and inactivity will eventually catch up. But it's huge advantage and shouldn't be discounted.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Pizza does that.

You're being difficult. I recommend chia because of its expansion properties when it contacts moisture. For those looking to maximize fullness on minimal input.
Plus there's the fatty acids, anti-inflammatory action, and reportedly blood pressure and triglyceride attenuation.

 

[Mai72]

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Fast Food is a big issue. Other countries are following in our footsteps.

 

[highland145]

You're being difficult. I recommend chia because of its expansion properties when it contacts moisture. For those looking to maximize fullness on minimal input.
Plus there's the fatty acids, anti-inflammatory action, and reportedly blood pressure and triglyceride attenuation.

Indubitably.

 

[nakedfrog]

I recommend pizza because it's fucking awesome.

 

[lxskllr]

My bmi is 26.5. I have a gut that won't go away. My exercise is sufficient, but I need to tune my diet.

Jul is coming, and mother always gets me a ton of sugar. I don't eat sweets that much, but she gets me enough to feed a platoon. I don't know what's so hard about "whisky and tobacco". That's what I want as a gift, and it's easy to buy; well... excepting the tobacco, but I can handle that. Give me cash, and I'll get tobacco with it.

 

[dullard]

I can hardly imagine a man 6 inches tall and 186 pounds.

More seriously, the gut microbiome is probably a huge key here. I suspect at sometime in the next 30 years there will be a lot of change in how we see obesity and a lot of other things.

I came in here to post BOTH of those comments (maybe he was measuring his height while laying down). Good job.