BF2S Forums What's your Body Mass Index (BMI)?

Cougar wrote:

The BMI is bullshit.  That is why most of the USAF has abandoned it for their own version.

I am 6'9 and 310 lbs.  I have a gut I will admit, but I am by no means obese.  According to the BMI I am supposed to weigh 200lbs to be normal weight. 

Now you tell me what a 6'9 tall guy who weighs 200lbs will look like.  It would not look healthy.  When I graduated from basic training 5 years ago I was an inch shorter and weighed 240 and I looked like a goddamned holocaust survivor.  Now this stupid chart says I have to lose 110lbs or else I'm obese? 

Yeah, no.

Skorpy-chan wrote:

14.8
6'2", 115lb.
Fucking winter, fucking bloody bout of flu, I'm meant to be about 15lbs heavier than this!

Last edited by Shem (2007-12-13 08:31:49)

Cougar wrote:

The BMI is bullshit.  That is why most of the USAF has abandoned it for their own version.

I am 6'9 and 310 lbs.  I have a gut I will admit, but I am by no means obese.  According to the BMI I am supposed to weigh 200lbs to be normal weight. 

Now you tell me what a 6'9 tall guy who weighs 200lbs will look like.  It would not look healthy.  When I graduated from basic training 5 years ago I was an inch shorter and weighed 240 and I looked like a goddamned holocaust survivor.  Now this stupid chart says I have to lose 110lbs or else I'm obese? 

Yeah, no.

• BMI is Bullshit. It was invented by some guy in the 1800s for a different purpose than it is used for today: to assign a health evaluation based solely on one’s weight and height.   
• Based on the current BMI definitions, Brad Pitt is overweight and George Clooney is obese.   
• Penn and a ripped body builder have the same BMI.   
• Insurance companies inappropriately use BMI to determine who qualifies for health insurance and how much they must pay.   
• The use of the word “epidemic” to describe obesity is sensationalist and doesn’t really mean anything.   
• Fat guys can be better athletes than skinny guys. In the “fat guy” olympics, the skinny guy came in third after two obese men.   
• The diet industry and “obesity watchdogs” are in bed together. An obesity conference they visited was mostly skinny people trying to sell the newest food and supplement magic-bullets for weight loss.   
• We are genetically predisposed to eat and f*&%. That’s why we are here after all, our ancestors knew how to do those two things very well. Dieting goes against evolution. Science has invented a way to f@#$ without the consequences of unwanted pregnancies, but they haven’t found a way to eat without unwanted pounds. Yet.