US obesity 'higher than thought'

MisterTEZ
MisterTEZ Posts: 272 Member
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BBC News reports US obesity 'higher than thought'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17585734

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  • 51powerski
    51powerski Posts: 66 Member
    Doesn't suprise me. Shamefully though, the UK isn't that far behind. :(
  • FORIANN
    FORIANN Posts: 273 Member
    I blame Obama.
  • MisterTEZ
    MisterTEZ Posts: 272 Member
    Intereresting quote

    They (The team at the New York University School of Medicine and the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York) propose changing the thresholds for obesity: "A more appropriate cut-point for obesity with BMI is 24 for females and 28 for males."
  • Lyra89
    Lyra89 Posts: 674 Member
    I'm doing a degree in education and plan on working with obese children & moving towards becoming a health promoter or nutritionist!

    I cant believe how far I've come in three years...I went from knowing NOTHING about food to knowing a whole lot :smile:

    I blame the lack of education.

    We trust that if food is available in a shop, it cant contain anything toxic...it cant be THAT bad for us...we're so wrong!
  • Martucha123
    Martucha123 Posts: 1,089 Member
    It make sense. BMI doesn't take into account muscle weight. As in general people are less and less active, so they lose muscle weight...
  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
    Why not just have doctors take body fat measurements rather than use BMI? My BMI is at 23.6 and just went out of the 24 range. I'm not obese. I wear a size six. I'm not as slender as I'd like to be--that's why I'm here--but I can confidently say by body fat, I'm not obese.

    I'm glad that this is just a recommendation and not something set to happen--I'd be so mad that getting into the "not overweight" range became "Obese!" LOL.

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