El Poll-o Locko

[jumblies]

From the other two threads. Here is a link to a BMI calculator.

Body Mass Index Calculator (not mine)

< 25 skinny
25-29.9 overweight
> 30 obese

See the New England Journal of Medicine reference for source material.



www.bonsaikitten.com

 

[ArkAoss]

56k users is dumb, zuni please ban 56k users from polling

36.31985861391138

 

[iamwiz82]

there is the same poll already doing, and its not even dead yet.

 

[jumblies]

Heres the poll

 

[Adul]

BMI is stupid. What about people who have a lot of muscle mass.

I weigh in at 193, 14% bodyfat.

according to the BMI I am overweight....
26.960510432634212

 

[jumblies]

I'm just big-booooooooned

 

[SmiZ]

I guess I'll say it again in this thread:

&quot;The BMI is suck&quot;

Makes absolutely no allowances for muscle mass or body type. About as worthless as determining if someone is overweight based on hair color.

 

[Taz4158]

23.144517501938644

 

[Turdorf]

Time to hit the diet!!

 

[ArkAoss]

hey please add an &quot;hey you finally made a poll!!&quot; option on the poll, or a &quot;whats a body, all I can see are hands and stomach.. and am chagrined at jabba the hutt not returning my calls about where he got that nice hover couch.

 

[DefRef]

Only confirmed what I already knew.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

yeah so i now have more evidence telling me i need to lose 10 pounds... big deal and put extra mayo on that quaterpounder

 

[Elledan]

Woohaa!! I knew I wasn't fat, but this is insane:

17.968293898989895

 

[shadow]

look at the scale people: doesn't it seem a bit odd that it goes straight from SKINNY to Overweight with NO &quot;Ideal/OK/No-need-to-obsess-about-body&quot; in there at all. Right off the bat it seems absurd.

 

[Frost]

21.177352315761762 I'm only 14 though so heh!

Frost

 

[BigLance]

24.992757491815663

6'4&quot; 205

 

[jumblies]

statement retracted.

 

[shadow]

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[iamwiz82]

me thinks jumblies is too big for his britches =]

 

[Z24]

BMI is only intended for adults.

it's still pointless though.

 

[Linh]

19.227936071489942

 

[vi edit]

Same philosophy as SmiZ. It takes zero muscle mass into account. It also has no &quot;ideal&quot; weight as someone else suggested.

I give this thing about as much validity as I do those fortune tellers you see advertised on late night TV.

 

[Regine]

Well, this thing tells me that I'm skinny. I'm just gonna take that as a compliment and feel good about myself for a few minutes until I see myself in the mirror

 

[Mill]

25.72435235621521

 

[iamwiz82]

ouch toolgirl, if that thing says you are skinny, you are definately skinny, cuz it is not right at all. be happy.