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study: 56% of NFL obese

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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/3430380

A study was conducted and found that the entire NFL was overweight and over half were obese.

What method was this determined by? BMI! The WORST calculation for athletic/muscular people. Hell, I am considered overweight with my 27 BMI and I'm under 10% bodyfat, and these NFL players have a hell of a lot more muscle than me....
 
ray lewis has pretty low body fat. i think its like 7%. all these "obese" people are probably linemen or some one who does not need to run.
 
The BMI always has been, and always will be, a POS index that doctors use to scare middle age people into using their treadmills.

The goal is good, the tool is worthless.
 
Originally posted by: murphy55d
No NFL player is obese, lineman or otherwise. Even Gilbert Brown is not obese.
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You understand the concept of "fit but fat"? It's all about excess weight regardless of physical conditioning.

BMI is misleading when you are talking about people with excessive amounts of muscle, but fact remains that carrying excessive amounts of weight for your body size DOES affect your hearts ability to function properly.

Fat, muscle bound, or otherwise, people with high BMI's do have shorter lifespans.
 
Even the 'fat' football players are still quite athletic. That article was just another example of mainstream media sensationalism at work.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: murphy55d
No NFL player is obese, lineman or otherwise. Even Gilbert Brown is not obese.
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You understand the concept of "fit but fat"? It's all about excess weight regardless of physical conditioning.

BMI is misleading when you are talking about people with excessive amounts of muscle, but fact remains that carrying excessive amounts of weight for your body size DOES affect your hearts ability to function properly.

Fat, muscle bound, or otherwise, people with high BMI's do have shorter lifespans.
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Correct.
Some might not like the BMI, but on average it is a good scale for LONG term life and health.

 
Originally posted by: Babbles
Even the 'fat' football players are still quite athletic. That article was just another example of mainstream media sensationalism at work.
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The study was conducted by JAMA. It doesn't get much more reputable than that.
 
In the study, University of North Carolina endocrinologist Joyce Harp and student Lindsay Hecht used statistics on the NFL Web site to calculate BMIs for 2,168 NFL players, nearly all those playing in the 2003-04 season.
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Wow, what an indepth study. :roll:

Bunch of morons.
 
Probably true for NFL but how many "athletes" or "muscular" people have done dunk tank to see what their body comp is? 😛
 
I wouldn't say it is that high. But I can probably bet a fair amount of the NFL players are not 'lean'. Not really overweight but a bit imo.

Being 'athletic' doesn't mean your healthy either. Being able to run and knock the hell out of someone with speed and power and being 30lbs overweight isn't healthy either way you cut it. Sure he is pretty dam athletic but not as healthy as could be. But when are pulling in quite a lot of money would you really care? No.

But yeah in general BMI sucks for people who are muscled.

Koing
 
don't be too quick to dismiss bmi because it was applied to what is practically a percentage of a percentage of people in a given population, for most people it is a relevant guage of health
 
Most linemen are disgustingly fat. And when they stop playing at the end of their careers, it usually gets really ugly.
 
Originally posted by: jjsole
Most linemen are disgustingly fat. And when they stop playing at the end of their careers, it usually gets really ugly.
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I live a couple minutes from the University of Iowa (Big 10 country). The local newspaper here did an article a couple years ago about that very subject. When the linemen were playing they were more or less forced to eat upwards of 6000 calories a day to maintain that weight/mass that they required to be competitive in top ranked NCAA football. If they stopped playing or didn't get drafted, they had to go through special programs put on by the athletics program to help them learn how to cut back on their calories and safely dump some of the mass they carried while playing.

 
BMI is actually a good way to tell if someone needs to drop a few pounds. Obviously, it doesnt take into account someone that has a lot of muscle. If anyone else can come up w/ a better way that is still very easy and uniform, lemme know.

Doctors are smart people and wont recommend Mr Olympia lose weight b/c his BMI is outta whack. Some guy like warren sapp, yeah he prob should lose some weight along w/ most of us americans.

SLU M.D.
 
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