Right that's the politics out of the way. A survey showed that 63% of adults in England were above a healthy weight, 36% were overweight and 28% were obese. Men living with being overweight or obese was recorded at 67%, with women at 60%. Studies have recorded similar figures for adults in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Overweight or obese patients with COVID-19 were more likely to be hospitalised compared to patients with a healthy weight. According to the NHS, people with a body mass index (BMI) - which is calculated using a person's height and weight - of between 18.5 and 24.9 are considered to be healthy. A figure of 25 to 29.9 means a person is overweight, while 30 to 39.9 is obese. A BMI rating of above 40 is considered severely obese. I just done the BMI thing, and i'm 21;5, which is ok for this survey.. Mind i'd fail on many other health surveys, as it didn't even ask anything, just height, weight and age...Ethnic group and amount of exercise, Does anyone take much notice off these things? Has anyone done this rather vague survey? We are a nation of fatties, love beers and fatty food. (well not all, but a lot)
Honestly expected this to be about BLM. BMI is useful as it’s easy to calculate but apart from that is the worst method of measuring physical health and is basically pointless.
My bmi is 27/28, so I'm classed as overweight. I exercise 5 days a week, hill walking, mountain biking. I've had 4 operations in the last 17 months. ECG was good, blood pressure good told i was fit and healthy for my age, nurse wrote down my bmi but said all the other stuff was more important. They seem to use it as a warning more than anything else.
All people are different structures. Slim, medium and well built...Just to use a height to height ration across the board kind of makes it a bit pointless.
Didn't they do a bmi test on the England rugby union team a few years back, and they were mostly 30 plus.
Did this with a couple of mates who I go to the gym with a while ago. All of us were overweight or obese according to it. Was part of some other test we did that calculated body fat and think we were all in the 9-15% range, which is quite a bit below “average” in the uk (I appreciate the average will be driven up by the amount of fat ****s in the country) It is an outdated way of calculating health as it doesn’t account for muscle mass which is heavier and some people just being naturally bigger than others of the same height (broader, thicker bones, heavier skeleton). I think for someone who is 6ft the max they could weigh to be considered “healthy” was 12.5 stone, which really isn’t a lot for someone of that height, especially if they play sport or go to the gym regularly
i'm 18.9 and in the normal range though close to underweight. BMI is such a blunt tool as it just does weight not body fat so when i was at my fittest i would have been considerably heavier but that was purely due to muscle mass . Fittest is a slightly dodgy description as at that time i was also consuming a reasonable amount of recreational substances and an unreasonable amount of alcohol .
