How fat is it where you live?
- Thread starter Jerome Silberman
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These rates are insane!
I’m betting just under 50% of posters on this board are obese
I just drove up Dubuque Street in Iowa City. I can report with the students returning the young ladies of IC are fit and trim.
Nothing, which probably helps their numbers quite a bit.
By what standard though? BMI? That's a complete joke.
From the CDC
The prevalence of obesity increased from 30.5% in 1999-2002 to 41.9% in 2017–March 2020. During the same time, the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%.
I guessed the numbers jumped in the last 4 years
Honestly I thought you chart looked low
Are you serious? Muscle is the enemy of BMI.
The exercise bug runs through water pipes there.
Maybe. It was just a guess. But just looking at the sheer volume of posts many people have on here they sure ain’t out exercising much
Are dudes like that a big part of the population where you live?
Yep. It goes into much, much smaller muscle mass though. Essentially with BMI, if you aren't a man looking like a 16 year old kid, you're overweight.
Okay. I have a lot of doubt that there is a large enough population of those guys to completely dismiss a commonly used metric.
I just looked at a BMI chart and an individual has to be pretty dern big to achieve a 30.
I would support legislation that ties fatness and fitness with the amount of your health insurance premium.
Can I take this opportunity to once again thank you for going out of your way to not explain your opinion.
He was asking if that was something they considered when measuring obesity
I was answering Jerome’s question when he asked for an example of how muscle might be the enemy of BMI
That would kill any and all sorts of insurance setups and effectively raise costs across the board.
It is a HUGE penalty for the healthy.
That said, compare the rates to educational attainment beyond HS. Ironically Iowa is high on HS diplomas and low on college degrees.
Less college degrees, the more obesity.
No you agreed with someone pointing out that elite athletes would be obese and then talked about being overweight.
Overweight=/=obese.
No, it would raise rates and costs on the obese and likely provide some motivation to be less obese which would drive down costs.
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