Average human weighs 137lb - world's fattest countries

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  • SeekingKarma
    SeekingKarma Posts: 61 Member
    Luxembourg ME Libya
  • aspen_matthews
    aspen_matthews Posts: 94
    This is interesting but would be more interesting and provide better information if it was based on BMI and not weight.
  • Jaulen
    Jaulen Posts: 468 Member
    Really? They're not going to make ANY distinction between males and females...??

    One of many flaws from this "study".

    I would like to see it adjusted for poverty. In countries where the average daily income is less than $2 I would expect them to weigh less, and not in an enviable way.

    ^^ This is what I was thinking.
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    Americans are also taller than many of the countries which scored lower, so this study is absolute garbage. Even my own doctor says I could never safely get below 170 or so lbs.
  • anglhart
    anglhart Posts: 5
    GREAT JOB AT LOSING SO MUCH WEIGHT! HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO GET TO YOUR CURRENT WEIGHT AND WHAT'S YOUR SECRET?:smile:
  • Namaste1983
    Namaste1983 Posts: 603 Member
    WOW.... I AM THE BIGGEST. AFTER LOSING ALL THIS WEIGHT I'M STILL HUGE? NO THANKS SCIENCE. I WILL TRUST MYSELF ON THIS ONE :)
  • hollyk57
    hollyk57 Posts: 520 Member
    OMG... that's not the kind of downer I needed on a Friday. Do I laugh or cry? lol...it's motivation...
    You are heavier than the average adult in Micronesia
    You're lighter than the average adult in 0 countries You're heavier than the average adult in 177 countries
  • kateshape
    kateshape Posts: 25
    between Ghana and Gabon
  • CraigIW
    CraigIW Posts: 176
    Yeah, what percentage of those weights are unhealthy though? I'd say anything under 55kg is definitely under-nourished!
  • lcantrell13
    lcantrell13 Posts: 28 Member
    I am in line with Libya...
  • Annette_rose
    Annette_rose Posts: 427 Member
    Shoot...I am at 137 exactly (was up to 175-180 years ago). I would LOVE to at least get down to 130 but maybe that is still fat based on this survey??? Actually, I would love to get to 125 but worried I will have no boobs left at all by the time I got to that..haha :laugh:
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    My weight falls between Samoa and Kuwait :blushing:

    Don't be too embarrassed. When I started I was 50% heavier than the average person in Micronesia (#1 on the list). I'm still 25% heavier. SW 297lbs, CW 250lbs. Crap! Now I'm embarrassed! :blushing:
  • Annette_rose
    Annette_rose Posts: 427 Member
    WOW.... I AM THE BIGGEST. AFTER LOSING ALL THIS WEIGHT I'M STILL HUGE? NO THANKS SCIENCE. I WILL TRUST MYSELF ON THIS ONE :)

    Good idea!!!! You have done, and ARE doing awesome, incredible, amazing!!!
  • Cindy311
    Cindy311 Posts: 780 Member
    Before:
    I was lighter than none and heavier than the average adult in 177 countries.

    After:
    I'm an average adult in Morocco.
    Lighter than the average adult in 109 countries.
    Heavier than the average adult in 68 countries.

    Yeah, eating right and exercising was totally worth it!
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    Yeah, what percentage of those weights are unhealthy though? I'd say anything under 55kg is definitely under-nourished!

    I know. That's what I was thinking. If the average worldwide is only 137lbs, there must be FAR more people who are undernourished than overweight in order to bring the average down that low.
  • 2knoxs
    2knoxs Posts: 81
    Fun, but will not base anything on it asI still need to lose weight since Im only 4'11"

    "You are roughly the same weight as the average adult in Malaysia



    You're lighter than the average adult in 125 countries

    You're heavier than the average adult in 52 countries"
  • vyanadevi
    vyanadevi Posts: 134 Member
    I am between Brazil and Kazakhstan
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    The study isn't about healthy weight for specific genders, heights and builds, it's actually about food security, where the average weight of an adult indicates overall energy requirement. The media merely tagged the obesity angle on because of the league table.

    http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/pressoffice/press_releases/2012/tacking_population_weight_crucial_for_food_security.html
  • lesita75
    lesita75 Posts: 379 Member
    Between Jamaica and Italy.
  • willhare
    willhare Posts: 44 Member
    I'm BARELY under the US average. Without the genders, heights, and builds, though, it's almost pointless to release the study…unless, of course, the study was simply meant to further the insecurities of people who are self-conscious about their weight. There's way too much emphasis on the number on the scale, alone, these days.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    I'm BARELY under the US average. Without the genders, heights, and builds, though, it's almost pointless to release the study…unless, of course, the study was simply meant to further the insecurities of people who are self-conscious about their weight. There's way too much emphasis on the number on the scale, alone, these days.
    The study wasn't about health, it was about basing future food security on energy demands.
  • willhare
    willhare Posts: 44 Member
    I'm BARELY under the US average. Without the genders, heights, and builds, though, it's almost pointless to release the study…unless, of course, the study was simply meant to further the insecurities of people who are self-conscious about their weight. There's way too much emphasis on the number on the scale, alone, these days.
    The study wasn't about health, it was about basing future food security on energy demands.

    I was referring to the initial link that started the thread.
  • Cindym82
    Cindym82 Posts: 1,245 Member
    You are roughly the same weight as the average adult in
    Afghanistan


    hmmmmm......
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    Is it taking into account size? Americans are much bigger or taller than say Thai people, for example.

    According to my BMI, if I weighed 137 lbs, I would be severly underweight, medically, the doctors would be telling me to put on some lbs. I think I call BS on this report.
  • cici1028
    cici1028 Posts: 799 Member
    Zimbabwe!
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    I was referring to the initial link that started the thread.
    That was an infographic-heavy article based on the study I referred to which the newspaper had chosen to put a populist obesity angle on. The scientists who did the study didn't need to take these things into account as that wasn't what they were measuring.

    A study that was actually into healthy weights by country would take things like height and build into account. As a science journalist myself I can vouch for the fact that the takeaway message most newspapers and magazines take away from research isn't what it was designed to prove.

    So it was far from pointless to release the study as it will hopefully help inform future food security, and the article was far from pointless as by making it a "fattest countries" league it got lots of readers, which is the raison d'etre for newspapers :smile:
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
    And while the US makes up only five per cent of the world's population, it accounts for almost a third of the world’s weight due to obesity.

    In comparison, Asia has 61 per cent of the world’s people but only 13 per cent of the world’s weight.

    This proves nothing except that statistics can be manipulated to bolster any POV.

    As an adult male at 185 cm, 62 kg would be borderline for an unhealthy maintenance weight.

    Or in other words...a nation population made up of one very healthy baby elephant, a dog, two cats and three anemic squirrels would also have an "average" weight of 137 lbs...."Average weight" is really not a great indicator of anything but your dress size.
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    I'm BARELY under the US average. Without the genders, heights, and builds, though, it's almost pointless to release the study…unless, of course, the study was simply meant to further the insecurities of people who are self-conscious about their weight. There's way too much emphasis on the number on the scale, alone, these days.
    The study wasn't about health, it was about basing future food security on energy demands.

    And then the Telegraph stepped in :laugh: Seriously though, why are people thinking it's about how FAT they are? My weight being between Chad and Niger just makes me sad for the people living there who are probably, in the main, taller than me. They clearly don't have food security yet!
  • jordanreddick
    jordanreddick Posts: 197 Member
    Ugh! Only lighter than 2 other countries!!! In between US and Tonga :cry:
  • niss63
    niss63 Posts: 82 Member
    Your first post:

    From the Daily Telegraph:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9345086/The-worlds-fattest-countries-how-do-you-compare.html

    The world's fattest countries: how do you compare?

    The average weight of an adult human is 137 pounds (62 kg) according to a league table of the world's 'fattest' nations from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Find out how you compare to other adults using our interactive graphic.

    The pacific island nations of Micronesia and Tonga are at the top of the league table, followed closely by the United States where the average adult weighs 180.62 pounds (81.93 kg).

    The United Kingdom is the tenth fattest country in the world, where an average adult weighs 167.1 pounds (75.8 kg).

    The study, published in the journal BMC Public Health and launched on Monday at the United Nations conference Rio+20, highlights the problem of obesity in relation to the environment.

    Excess consumption shortens people's lives and accelerates the destruction of the environment, and is concentrated in richer countries.

    While the average body mass globally was 62 kg, North Americans weigh in at 81.9 kg.

    And while the US makes up only five per cent of the world's population, it accounts for almost a third of the world’s weight due to obesity.

    In comparison, Asia has 61 per cent of the world’s people but only 13 per cent of the world’s weight.

    And now this:
    The study isn't about healthy weight for specific genders, heights and builds, it's actually about food security, where the average weight of an adult indicates overall energy requirement. The media merely tagged the obesity angle on because of the league table.

    http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/pressoffice/press_releases/2012/tacking_population_weight_crucial_for_food_security.html

    I'm calling foul on this one. The first post is focused on obesity, plain and simple. Now you're saying that this is about food security - which was not indicated in your first post.

    If this is about getting responses (selling papers), then you've suckered me in. Fool me once...

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