New BMI

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  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    Huh. Drops me 1.2 and moves me from obese to overweight.

    TBH, I kinda think this is about right for me. I know I'm teetering on that break, but I don't think I'm obese anymore.

    Congrats on the milestone! :smiley:
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Down by .1 for me. What makes a bigger difference is the .5 inch variation in height depending on who measured me!
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    ALG775 wrote: »
    Have you heard about the new BMI scale? It is specifically for very short and very tall people.
    http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/calculators/new-bmi/
    I like it-as the weight I seemed to have settles with so far is 24.6 on the new BMI and 25.8 on the old BMI!

    I'm not too concerned about BMI, but thought it was interesting.

    The new one does seem to be more consistent with what we observe among short and tall people, but keep in mind that the old BMI has a significant amount of research supporting it while the new BMI has little to none.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I'm 5'8" and mine went down by 0.2
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    edited October 2017
    does BMI have nothing to do with gender? Never knew that xD

    standard -22.5
    new- 23.1

    it made me fatter :( lol
  • maggibailey
    maggibailey Posts: 289 Member
    I'm 5'10 and mine went from 22.7 to 22.1.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    does BMI have nothing to do with gender? Never knew that xD

    standard -22.5
    new- 23.1

    it made me fatter :( lol

    Yet another fault of it - no.

    Not sure if this thread or another.
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439

    Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus

    1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual.

    The BMI was introduced in the early 19th century by a Belgian named Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. He was a mathematician, not a physician. He produced the formula to give a quick and easy way to measure the degree of obesity of the general population to assist the government in allocating resources. In other words, it is a 200-year-old hack.

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