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acongregationowalrii t1_j5z8185 wrote

Reply to comment by Helenium_autumnale in How do you live to be 100? Good genes, getting outside and friends. by MI6Section13

Buddy most of the US is obese and makes it past 50. Morbidly obese I'd believe but honestly there is a frightening amount of obese people out there

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Atalung t1_j5zo47m wrote

The problem with that stat is that "obese" here is the clinical definition. I know several people that would be defined as obese but nobody would ever consider them that. That's not to say that there isn't an obesity issue, but the formal definitions are based off 19th century persons who had significantly different health statuses. BMI is useful for a population level tool and its nice to have decades of data, but it's not really useful for individuals

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amaraame t1_j5zpgsa wrote

A lot of people got kicked out of the military when they put in a waist max measurement. They put in a bmi is low enough work around eventually but many people are heavy with muscle so they're still screwed

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