5/1/2014 4:27:21 PM

BMI is meaningless

5/1/2014 4:28:42 PM

^

but if i had to choose one from the pic, based on how the body looks, not based on the numbers underneath, the leftmost pic.

5/1/2014 4:30:13 PM

I'd go with the 1st or 2nd from the left.

5/1/2014 4:35:25 PM

third from left

5/1/2014 4:42:19 PM

so the female that looks most attractive is underweight? not this shit again

5/1/2014 5:16:30 PM

Ugly haircuts. WOULD NOT HIT ANY OF THEM.

5/1/2014 5:46:42 PM

ibtdtownral fat comment

His ideal isn't even on that chart.

5/1/2014 5:52:04 PM

Yeah BMI is meaningless.

Couldn't find a better graphic but here's a good reason why:

5/1/2014 5:53:45 PM

You don't need a better one, that graphic is perfect!

5/1/2014 5:56:17 PM

whats the formula?

5/1/2014 6:08:53 PM

is it just me, or do the chicks get to be WAYYY fatter than the guys before the bar turns red.
lol morbid obesity

5/1/2014 6:35:11 PM

why do the dudes have nipples when the dudettes don't?

also would not hit: no genitalia.

5/1/2014 6:36:04 PM

I have the same problem as most of the nay sayers. I'm 5% body fat 6'1" and 230 lbs. I also dismiss anything that doesn't account for any and all outlying data

5/1/2014 6:45:04 PM

Quote :

"is it just me, or do the chicks get to be WAYYY fatter than the guys before the bar turns red. lol morbid obesity"

thats cuz men have more muscle and women have more fat.

remember, bmi has not much to do with how much fat you have, it is how heavy you are for a given height.

a man and woman of the same height and weight? the woman will almost always be fatter.

even look at the 17.5 bmi figures, the woman has much bigger thighs than the man. (to make up for the smaller upper body musculature and bones, which also shows clearly in the graphic)

5/1/2014 7:03:08 PM

THE BIGGER THE CUM
THE HARDER THEY FALL

5/1/2014 7:27:12 PM

my brother in law routinely got put in the "fat boy" program in the Air Force. He is 6'3 and weighs about 220, but not until he was stationed in Qatar was he ever over weight. This was all due to BMI. Luckily for him, he was able to just go to some aerobics classes 3 times a week in addition to his normal workouts, which satisfied the fat boy program.

5/1/2014 8:25:10 PM

apparently I'm a BMI Female 22

5/1/2014 8:57:37 PM

Do you even lift, bro?

5/1/2014 9:05:37 PM

Me - 6'4" | 247 OBESE
If I take a big dump tomorrow I'll only be overweight

5/1/2014 9:39:33 PM

this article reminded me of this thread: http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/why-dont-women-know-what-men-find-attractive?paging=off¤t_page=1

Quote :

"My husband likes to squeeze onto what I’ve been taught to call my “muffin top,” the bit of “extra” flesh just above my hips. Recently, he planted a hand on it, squeezed and made a desirous grunting noise that made me think he might eat me alive. “Baby, no!” I protested, batting his hand away. “Don’t squeeze my fat.” His face softened. “But I love it. I love this juicy little oyster,” he said, referencing the tender, most delicious part of a chicken. “It’s the best.” Funny, I thought it was the worst. This isn’t just a case of my particular insecurities and my husband’s sexual idiosyncrasies. Studies have shown that straight women overestimate the importance of thinness in heterosexual men’s perception of female beauty. That is to say, women think men prefer ladies much thinner — and “oyster”-less — than they actually do."

5/2/2014 1:54:26 AM

ummm, no thanks

5/2/2014 9:17:51 AM

^^

5/2/2014 9:26:14 AM

I don't even like it when my boyfriend squeezes my cheeks. (my actual cheeks, not my buttcheeks )

5/2/2014 9:29:08 AM

Any woman who isn't rail thin is bound to have an area like that, whether it's the hips, thighs, abdomen or somewhere else. And I imagine most are at least somewhat self-conscious of it because of the perception that anything that squishes (other that T&A) is bad. She's probably not talking about rolls or anything, just a little bit of softness.

Which of course everyone will now say means she's just fat and lazy.

5/2/2014 9:35:01 AM

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm

according to that BMI calc i'm a BMI of 27.3 which is overweight but i'm 14% body fat

5/2/2014 10:15:04 AM

^we all understand its limitations.

for the 24.9 the man looks normal but the women looks borderline. Do we put too much pressure on female body image?

5/2/2014 10:40:48 AM

^ yes, media of course does.

but those pics... well i explained it earlier when fermat said the same thing:

thats cuz men have more muscle and women have more fat.

remember, bmi has not much to do with how much fat you have, it is how heavy you are for a given height.

a man and woman of the same height and weight? the woman will almost always be fatter.

even look at the 17.5 bmi figures, the woman has much bigger thighs than the man. (to make up for the smaller upper body musculature and bones, which also shows clearly in the graphic)


having said that, the pics of the men are not representative of what you find in real life. the first 4 men have decent bellies, but i think in reality a majority of men have bigger bellies, at any given weight, than those pictures show.

5/2/2014 10:44:35 AM

BMI is terribly flawed as a health marker for individuals, and should never be used in a way that presumes anything about a given individual without context; for example, insurance companies who would link premiums to BMI.

obviously if your BMI is over 30 and you're a body builder, that's markedly different than the fatass with a 30 BMI who gets out of breath walking up a flight of stairs.

BMI is much more useful at an aggregate level when looking at populations rather than individuals. The reality is that in a statistically significant population, the percentage of those with high BMIs due to lean mass is a rounding error.

5/2/2014 12:15:50 PM

Very well said.

5/2/2014 12:17:54 PM

What's a statistically significant population? You mean a statistically significant sample size?

5/2/2014 12:25:06 PM

^^^yes. well said.

5/2/2014 1:17:08 PM

I, being 6'2", would have to weigh 190 in order to be considered "normal."

I think that's absurd. Tall males going over 200 seems pretty normal to me.

After my back surgery I jumped up to 280 but now I'm down to under 250. Once I get to ~225 I'm going to be pretty damn pleased with my body.

5/2/2014 1:32:00 PM

Body / fat is a much better measurement. Just get that checked out.

I flucutiate between 15-16% and I'm close to overweight according to BMI (~27).



[Edited on May 2, 2014 at 1:40 PM. Reason : s]

5/2/2014 1:39:52 PM

I like how each picture has the same amount of muscle

5/2/2014 8:01:21 PM

5/2/2014 9:58:08 PM

lol, this is stupid. So you're telling me that at 5'10 if I weighed 130 pounds I would be considered in the "normal" range? holy christ, i'd be skin and bones.

According to that chart, I am overweight at 5'10 185.

5/3/2014 11:17:14 AM

That would be low normal. To be middle normal you would need to be 153 pounds.

See the graphic posted by neodata for a strong criticism of BMI and then read Bobby's post to see what it is useful for.

5/3/2014 11:52:27 AM

Alternatively you can have two people with similar fat content but highly varying amounts of muscle:



Literally just skin and bones compared to muscle.

5/3/2014 2:38:12 PM