Where are you on the global fat scale?

[VP Baltar]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328

This is kind of an interesting tool I thought. Apparently, I should be from Botswana.

[kdowns]

You're most like someone from Malawi*

Where the fuck is Malawi?

Also

National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 94% of males aged 15-29 in your country


Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 71% of males aged 15-29 in the world

[gorckat]

Micronesia

Fattest place on earth.

[MattP]

National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 89% of males aged 15-29 in your country

Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 55% of males aged 15-29 in the world

You're most like someone from Romania

[gorckat]

That's just cause you're in college.

Wait until the ramen is an appetizer.

[evilpacman18]

[shaft.ed]

Morocco

[MattP]

That's just cause you're in college.

Wait until the ramen is an appetizer.

Ramen has beef extract in it

[animorpherv1]

National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 93% of males aged 15-29 in your country

Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 75% of males aged 15-29 in the world

You're most like someone from Haiti*


I'll be honest. That scares me...

[Tazaro]

Haiti: not what I would have guessed? Make sure you have it as pounds instead of kilograms, Americans. I got Micronesia at first when I made that mistake.

[zoraster]

Cameroon.

When I put a more precise measurement, I get Denmark. Although this is based on my weight today, and it tends to fluctuate between 165-170, which puts me between Czech Republic and Bosnia.

[VP Baltar]

you guys are some skinny dudes.

My full results were:

23 bmi

83% below U.S. males 15-29

57% above world average

[zoraster]

I'll also say this isn't fair! I'm nearing 28, and I'm in a group with 19-year-olds. I weighed 145 when I was 19. Bah!

[JDodge]

Bulgaria!

[Nicodemus]

Greece. I'm fat AND bankrupt

[Junpei]

But BMI isn't a good indicator of fatness...

[AGar]

I'll also say this isn't fair! I'm nearing 28, and I'm in a group with 19-year-olds. I weighed 145 when I was 19. Bah!

Even at 21, there's huge fluctuations in this age bracket. At age 15, I was 120. Now I'm closer to 165-170.

Also:



Pedit: Junpei, it's not perfect, but it's also not horribly off.

[Trevor]

Democratic Republic of Congo, represent

[Junpei]

Agar: Ray Rice has a BMI of 34. He's 5'6 and 212 pounds I think. He's micronesia and he's not fat, he's more in shape than 95% of America/the world.

If you have pretty much no muscle, then okay use BMI I guess but you'd know if you're obese or not just by looking at yourself. Seriously BMI assumes you don't have much muscle which is ridiculous because those silly BMI calculators online which turn it into bodyfat assume some musclemass/bone mass which is ridiculous to do.

If you want to know if you're fat or whatever go to a gym, pretend to sign up (or maybe you have a membership already) and ask for a body fat measurement. And be aware it could be off +/- 1% depending on how careful the person is.

[Zachrulez]

35bmi

Apparently above 96% of the people in the US from 15-29 and above 100% of the World

5 foot 11 and 250.

Most like someone from Micronesia.

Agar: Ray Rice has a BMI of 34. He's 5'6 and 212 pounds I think. He's micronesia and he's not fat, he's more in shape than 95% of America/the world.

If you have pretty much no muscle, then okay use BMI I guess but you'd know if you're obese or not just by looking at yourself. Seriously BMI assumes you don't have much muscle which is ridiculous because those silly BMI calculators online which turn it into bodyfat assume some musclemass/bone mass which is ridiculous to do.

If you want to know if you're fat or whatever go to a gym, pretend to sign up (or maybe you have a membership already) and ask for a body fat measurement. And be aware it could be off +/- 1% depending on how careful the person is.

Funny enough I have been going to the gym and I do have a lot more muscle weight now than I would have had say... 5 years ago.

[VP Baltar]

BMI isn't really accurate of your health or body composition. But, unfortunately, it's the only method available without body fat measuring and etc. I wouldn't read too much into it. I just posted this as something funny, especially the 'what country are you most like'.

[Zachrulez]

BMI isn't really accurate of your health or body composition. But, unfortunately, it's the only method available without body fat measuring and etc. I wouldn't read too much into it. I just posted this as something funny, especially the 'what country are you most like'.

Yeah, I do kinda wish there wasn't so much emphasis on that and weight cause what ends up happening is that people will diet rather than trying to increase their muscle mass to lose weight long term and what ends up happening when they lose the weight is that they ultimately gain it back (and often more), but it's with even more fat mass than it was when they started.

BMI would classify me as obese, but I don't think I'm that overweight.

[Jaws]

BMI: 18 (lol)
You have a lower BMI than 98% of males aged 15-29 in your country
You have a lower BMI than 86% of males aged 15-29 in the world
If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 65,473,471 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population
You're most like someone from DR Congo*

Don't know what my actual BMI is probably lower than that since I -do- have a good amount of muscle and almost no fat anywhere on my body. If I'm shirtless people will definitely know I work out. But then again I have a calcium deficiency and don't have much bone density so that might cancel it out. I don't actually look like a skeleton or anything, just really lean and slender. Most people are surprised when I tell them my weight.

[RXK]

i'm pretty fit, usually compete at either pena/featherweight (juvenile) or pluma/light featherweight (vs adults) in grappling competitions

then i put in details for wilson reis, who teaches brazilian jiu-jitsu at the gym i attend, apparently he's saudi arabian and also fat

don't tell him i said that or he'll kick my ass tho

[zoraster]

BMI isn't perfect by any means, but its ability to say something generally with only two readily available numbers is valuable. Yes, if you're an athlete it's going to think you're "fatter" than you are. But if you have a BMI of 34, it is extremely unlikely you're of average body fat unless you actually are Ray Rice.



My scale has a body fat measuring thing on it, but frankly I doubt its accuracy.

EDIT: Found this:

Spoiler: Consumer Report Article on home body-fat scales

Why CR doesn't test body-fat scales

Ed Kippel, senior program leader, Consumer ReportsAn interview with Ed Kippel, senior program leader, Personal Care and Wellness, Consumer Reports.


Q: Why are people interested in body-fat scales?
A. Concerns about fat and obesity have spawned the body-fat bathroom scale. Besides giving your weight, it measures the percentage of fat on your frame.

Q: Why doesn't Consumer Reports test them?
A: We did, back in 2003. We found that none of the scales were accurate for all of our subjects. We compared them with results from a dual-energy X-ray test, or DEXA, which is one of the gold standards for body-fat measurements. There was quite a variability in how they performed.

Q: But hasn't technology improved since then?
A: No, which is one reason we're reluctant to test the scales again. The scales still calculate body-fat percentage by means of a weak electrical current, which sends a signal up one leg, across your pelvis, and down the other leg. Many things can throw off the reading, such as your distribution of body fat, whether or not you have a knee or hip implant, even whether your feet are clean.

Q: Isn't it worth knowing your body-fat percentage even if it's not quite accurate?
A: Not really. There's little reliable data relating ranges of body-fat percentage directly to health outcomes. Most of the information that's available relates health to the Body Mass Index, which does not directly measure body-fat percentage but is a more accurate indicator of overweight and obesity than weight alone. To find your BMI, you don't need to buy a body-fat scale. All you need to know is your height and your weight, and you can calculate your BMI easily on our Web site. Two other ways to gauge your personal risk—methods that could be more accurate—are to measure your waist circumference or your waist-to-hip ratio. Your waist circumference should be less than 35 inches around if you're a woman, and less than 40 inches if you're a man. For the waist-to-hip ratio, divide the circumference at the narrowest part of the waist by the circumference at the broadest part of the hip. A healthy waist-to-hip ratio is 0.8 or less for women and 0.9 or less for men.