Comments on: Is Body Mass Index (BMI) an Effective Way to Measure Obesity?

By: Health Freak

Health Freak — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:03:19 +0000

The thing is, BMI is pants. It’s only slightly more useful than knowing someone’s weight without knowing their height. It’s a piece of data, nothing more.

Some people have ‘bad’ BMI and aren’t even actually fat, just muscular. Some people are definitely fat, but still quite healthy. And some people have ‘normal’ BMI and are totally unhealthy.

It’s potentially useful information, because it might mean you’re slightly more at risk of something and therefore you should be careful about it, but THAT’S IT. It does not say whether you’re a good or bad person, or even whether you’re a healthy or unhealthy person.

If, say, men are more at risk of heart attacks than women, that doesn’t mean you should turn all men into women, or that all men will die of heart attacks. It just means they should think about it once in a while.

By: bikinis models

bikinis models — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:29:11 +0000

One of the keys to fitness and health success is to stay dedicated whatever you do, no matter what.

Come up with a plan and stick at the diet and exercise. Also, just so you don’t lose your sanity, go ahead and eat what you want at least one day of the week, but go right back to your plan after that.

Try it off and on for a month before making it a life long decision as that is the best route to take it.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:07:29 +0000

Very interesting post. I’m glad you brought this topic up! I have been working so hard to get myself into better shape and I found your post to be both very helpful & informational! Thanks for sharing!

By: new zealand map

new zealand map — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:23:16 +0000

I use to be very into BMI, but I have come to see it as a very inaccurate number regarding the healthy weight of a particular individual.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:24:14 +0000

I used to be one of those people who was told by BMI that I was morbidly obese; I was weight training 3-4 days per week. After doing one of those BIA’s it was determined that I only had 20% instead of the 32% the BMI said I had.

I just started back up training, so I probably have a much higher % of body fat now; time to get to work!

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:12:16 +0000

BMI has been the standard indeed, but if you’re body type is just a little bit different (eg, length or muscles), you get misleading results.

I think you could just aswell judge someone’s fitness level by just looking at them. One’s vascularity and face fat are a good indication to see if someone is possibly overweight.

By: sorina

sorina — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:21:50 +0000

You have a very nice blog, good post…keep up the good job

By: CyberCelt

CyberCelt — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:19:16 +0000

Followed you from Endangered Spaces. More than anything, it was BMI that made me realize I was almost obese. Not obese enough for lapband, but close enough to realize I was in trouble.

You may want to check out my blog about weight loss, LosingProposition.blogspot.com.