How Fat Is Your State?

[drone]

It's not a joke. It isn't accurate for body builders and elderly, but the first category is statistically negligible and the second is roughly the same in percentage for every western nation. So yeah, the BMI statistics mentioned actually reflect differences in fatness, as between normal, blob and megablob.

It's a joke. It's not just body-builders, but most athletes in general get classified incorrectly. It does not take into account the simple fact that muscle weighs more than fat, so anyone who is relatively fit gets classified as overweight or worse.

And I beg to differ about the elderly, our old people are way fatter than your old people.

[Adrian II]

And I beg to differ about the elderly, our old people are way fatter than your old people.

How would you know, it it isn't through measurements of BMI?

[drone]

I've been to Europe. Your old people are still moving along nicely, chucking down the vino, eating good food, and enjoying liaisons I'd rather not think about. Ours are scooter-bound, just waiting to die.

Actually though, you may be right, I'm surprised by the Florida results. It's lower than I thought, maybe our old people aren't as fat as I imagine.


I sat in the parking lot of my grocery store yesterday, thinking about this thread and watching the people go in and out. The ratio of overweight people (young and old) I saw was pretty high. Not a very encouraging observation.

[GoreBag]

I'm in good shape and I don't care about anyone else sharing 'my' country with me. Raughle at having half the obesity of the US, though.

[Ice]

I sat in the parking lot of my grocery store yesterday, thinking about this thread and watching the people go in and out. The ratio of overweight people (young and old) I saw was pretty high. Not a very encouraging observation.

I've done that. It is is quite depressing. The best is to go to a moderately low priced restaurant and see what people are ordering and what they look like. It gets depressing as I'm order a piece of grilled chicken with veggies, while the 200 pound fat woman next to me is getting a large pizza.

[drone]

I've done that. It is is quite depressing. The best is to go to a moderately low priced restaurant and see what people are ordering and what they look like. It gets depressing as I'm order a piece of grilled chicken with veggies, while the 200 pound fat woman next to me is getting a large pizza.

The strangest is to go into a Whole Foods grocery store. Full of expensive, organic, healthy food, you would expect to see it patronized by fit hotties and vegan stick-figures. Not so, at least around here.

[Sigurd]

It gets depressing as I'm order a piece of grilled chicken with veggies, while the 200 pound fat woman next to me is getting a large pizza.

That's what you get for dating large women. Take a slim one out, they'll just eat a salad.

[Adrian II]

It's a joke. It's not just body-builders, but most athletes in general get classified incorrectly.

Are you seriously trying to tell us the number of athletes in your country has doubled in the past 25 years?

[drone]

Are you seriously trying to tell us the number of athletes in your country has doubled in the past 25 years?

I'm not arguing the fact that the US is fat, but the methodology for determining that statistic is flawed and cannot be trusted.