A new study warns that by 2050, nearly 60% of adults and one-third of children globally will be overweight or obese without governmental intervention. Published in the Lancet, the study analysed data…
We don’t genuinely know since bmi is a useless stat made by a rando that knew as much about medicine as the average dropout. It’s great for roughly pegging a human to a 150 year old average of peasant weights, and it’s great for sensationalist headlines, but it’s pretty pointless otherwise. The Rock, for instance, has the same BMI as Gabriel Iglesias.
People are larger than they were in the 1800s, in every dimension, thanks to better nutrition and fewer famines. Of course BMI is going to go up when we never update the standards for what is or isn’t overweight.
Something tells me the problem isn’t too many weightlifters.
We don’t genuinely know since bmi is a useless stat made by a rando that knew as much about medicine as the average dropout. It’s great for roughly pegging a human to a 150 year old average of peasant weights, and it’s great for sensationalist headlines, but it’s pretty pointless otherwise. The Rock, for instance, has the same BMI as Gabriel Iglesias.
People are larger than they were in the 1800s, in every dimension, thanks to better nutrition and fewer famines. Of course BMI is going to go up when we never update the standards for what is or isn’t overweight.