Where are you on the global fat scale?

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  • lbetancourt
    lbetancourt Posts: 522 Member
    Ha! I'm most like someone from India apparently. I do like Indian food, dammit I WANT Indian food.

    so am i. and, now i too would love to hit this local Indian buffet place! yum!
  • KatdenRN
    KatdenRN Posts: 52
    well... that isn't what I wanted to see... I'm going to have to call a suicide hotline... but not until I find out where Tonga is... apparently that's where really fat women in my age range live!!! Just kidding about the Suicide hotline!
  • dhakiyya
    dhakiyya Posts: 481 Member
    How can you calculate body fat percentage based on sex, age, height and weight. Complete rubbish! The BBC should know better.

    They are not calculating body fat percentage. They are calculating BMI (Body Mass Index) . The BMI scale has its flaws as we all know. ie a heavily muscled person also has a high BMI. However, for the most part it is a reasonable estimate of size, and typical body fat percentage.

    It's supposed to fun and interesting:)

    I totally agree!! and I also think what it tells you is highly irresponsible, given that teenagers and people who might be susceptible to developing eating disorders will read it. Even lots of adults who can take stuff like that with a pinch of salt are finding it depressing. I can laugh at it now (mostly because I know that BMI is a load of rubbish), but at age 15....? It's potentially very triggering, and it also reinforces a wrong mindset (i.e. weigh less = better, rather than aiming for better body composition)
  • KatdenRN
    KatdenRN Posts: 52
    well... that isn't what I wanted to see... I'm going to have to call a suicide hotline... but not until I find out where Tonga is... apparently that's where really fat women in my age range live!!! Just kidding about the Suicide hotline!


    Oh, at least it gets better... I live on an island!!
  • smistyyy
    smistyyy Posts: 2
    I'm like someone from Japan! That's so interesting! Thanks for sharing:)
  • jadesign19
    jadesign19 Posts: 512 Member
    I'm supposedly from Djibouti. Can somebody tell me where that is?
    Heck if the people are nice I can go visit and probably feel at home!

    its a country in north africa
    pronounced JAH- Booty haha

    :laugh: :laugh: ironic because I have booty:blushing:
  • jcamby
    jcamby Posts: 200 Member
    lol, forgot to move it from kilos to lbs the first time and almost had a heart attack. Heheh.


    Apparently I am above fat for my place, above fat globally... and I am most like someone from Samoa.. which sounds about right since I am tall and gigantic. And have awesome hair. The end.



    Mine are the same as you TheFunBun!
  • Tenoreo90
    Tenoreo90 Posts: 329 Member
    Well that made me want to kill myself.

    LOL, me too. Especially this part: If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 71,510,296 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population
  • footdoc6
    footdoc6 Posts: 23 Member
    My BMI is 25.

    I am most like someone from Botswana!

    You have a lower BMI than 77% of males aged 30-44 in your country.

    You have a higher BMI than 58% of males aged 30-44 in the world.

    This was pretty interesting to see!
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
    lol, forgot to move it from kilos to lbs the first time and almost had a heart attack. Heheh.

    I'm most like someone from Vietnam*

    I have a lower BMI than 70% of females aged 45-59 in the world
    I have a lower BMI than 90% of females aged 45-59 in your country
  • AlayshaJ
    AlayshaJ Posts: 703 Member
    I have a lower BMI then 90% of American girls my age. I have a lower BMI than 66% of girls my age world wide. 20

    I am most like someone from Somalia.
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Bahamas..........ok, I'm ready to move!
  • maylene1853
    maylene1853 Posts: 58
    i have lower bmi than 81% of the females in my own country usa!
    globally my bmi is lower than 51%.
    and im most like someone from myanmar. never even heard of it, lol.
  • Pookylou
    Pookylou Posts: 988 Member
    BMI of 23, lower the 78% of the United Kingdom, 56% lower than the Globe (aged 30-44)
    I am most like Papa New Guinea!
  • AllieBug25
    AllieBug25 Posts: 61
    I really loved this. I feel motivated to kick some other country's *kitten*. I'm going to make it my own personal competition.
  • molly_grue
    molly_grue Posts: 215 Member
    I'm most like Bangladesh.
  • africaa
    africaa Posts: 228
    They said I am fat! lol Above average both national and global...and they said that I am compared to someone from the Barbados

    My BMI is 29

    have a higher BMI than 68% of females aged 15-29 in your country Global Above average
    have a higher BMI than 96% of females aged 15-29 in the world
  • meribel46
    meribel46 Posts: 7
    Mine Says Austria which Im hoping might improve my skiing!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Jbarbo01
    Jbarbo01 Posts: 240 Member
    Well that made me want to kill myself.

    Agreed, so we have a global obesity epidemic thats a HUGE deal and my 31 BMI is higher than 98% of females in the world.....the media overblowing something? SHOCKING
  • jennipea382
    jennipea382 Posts: 47 Member
    Oh my.. interesting. I'm like someone from Barbados.

    29bmi
    You have a higher BMI than 65% of females aged 15-29 in your country (USA)
    You have a higher BMI than 95% of females aged 15-29 in the world

    Ouch. Ok.. the problem though is there is a huge difference between a 15 year old and 29 year old. When I was 15 I ate whatever I wanted and weighed 115 (at about the same height, maybe a tiny bit shorter). So comparing 15 year old me to 25 year old me is.. stupid really.
  • CaptainHandsome
    CaptainHandsome Posts: 127 Member
    Your numbers

    Obesity Index
    28bmi

    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 52% of males aged 30-44 in your country

    Global
    Above average
    You have a higher BMI than 84% of males aged 30-44 in the world

    and i'm just an average dude from the USA.
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    That may be the most depressing calculator I've ever seen...

    BMI: 30, most like Algeria
    Higher than 60% of the men in my age group in the US
    Higher than 91% of the men in my age group world wide

    (Of course, what it doesn't calculate is the weight of my... brain. Yeah, that's the ticket...)
  • frcklz613
    frcklz613 Posts: 23 Member
    Cambodia - lower BMI than 88% women my age in the US. My problem is that it's ALL in the belly, making clothes fit very awkwardly.
  • MalSponseller
    MalSponseller Posts: 217 Member
    lol me too!!! i have more body fat than 100% that woman from 15-29 on both nationally and globaly :/ this is even worse than the bmi :sad:

    Same.

    Though I'm most like someone from Tonga. Really?
  • pixieofdoom
    pixieofdoom Posts: 356 Member
    I could hug you guys who also discovered that they seem to be the fattest person on the planet (assuming I could get my giant whale flippers around you)!

    I think all us giants should move to Tonga and see if we can knock the planet off it's axis and change direction with our giant booty powers (closer to the sun for anyone else in Britain who feels like they're drowning in rain).

    BTW I clearly have more knowledge of pies than astrophysics :tongue:
  • third_time_lucky
    third_time_lucky Posts: 103 Member
    WOW now that is something i regret doing!!!
    :(
  • frcklz613
    frcklz613 Posts: 23 Member
    Haha, I tried to enter my height, and it put my feet and inches in the same box (53 feet). I was freaking out trying to figure out how i had a 0 BMI...apparently VIetnam is the lowest though, bc that's what it gave me for the oops!
  • gsager
    gsager Posts: 977 Member
    BMI is 21

    Lower than 91% of 45-59 in US
    Lower than 74% of 45-59 in the World

    Most like someone in Papua New Guinea
  • chinita96
    chinita96 Posts: 141 Member
    Your numbers
    Obesity Index

    23bmi
    BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is National
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 85% of females aged 30-44 in your country Global
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 58% of females aged 30-44 in the world

    You're most like someone from China*

    How fitting. Too bad they would hate me over there. :laugh:

    Thanks for sharing. What an interesting website.
  • professorRAT
    professorRAT Posts: 690 Member
    Singapore
    lower BMI than 88% of US
    lower BMI than 65% globally

    remember there are lots of starving people in the world folks; lower isn't always good.
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