I am a 60+ y/o man with four siblings- two older and two younger. The youngest is ‘chunky’ the other three are obese. At 6’, I grow concerned if my weight exceeds 185. I exercise and watch what I eat - it isn’t that difficult. My wife is the same way- you just have to pay attention and value health more than you value eating shitty food.
As to attractiveness, fat was in in the 17th century because food was scarce in the winter. Today food is anything but scarce, and fat is a sign of poor maintenance. Attractiveness is robust health and symmetry. With the pervasiveness of sexually attractive models (real or enhanced [surgicaly/digitally]), the 30% above is decidedly unattractive, and will have far more difficulty finding a man who is attractive, or successful - there are exceptions, but… Sex drive for most obese folks is low, but not completely absent. Desire for social inclusion, and desire for companionship are the same as healthy folks, which makes life tougher, and has a resultant effect on overall health.
Happier people are healthier, and healthier people are happier.
Healthier people are also a lot less expensive. Obese people use healthcare at an order of magnitude higher rate than healthy people. The body does not do well maintaining enough additional arterioles and venules to string 100+ miles, and the fat clogs almost every system. Then there’s the extra ‘stones’ of weight that bring arthritis.
What on earth are you talking about? There is only one way to calculate BMI! BMI is body mass index and is certainly not an estimate. It is weight /height squared in kg and metres. I am beginning to think @Magog is right about you.
It’s all relative. Maybe where he comes from, anything less than 30% is considered anorexic. The norm is 30% so if you are say 40%, that is not too bad.
No it isn’t. Obese starts between 32-35% and morbidly obese doesn’t begin until a woman exceeds 50% or in excess of 100lbs overweight. You are a moron.
Lame trolling but for you an improvement. I never had a problem attracting large numbers of attractive women and never spent a night home alone as a single man except by choice.
Are you really this ignorant or just trolling because your little feelings got hurt?
Weight that is higher than what is considered as a healthy weight for a given height is described as overweight or obese. Body Mass Index, or BMI, is used as a screening tool for overweight or obesity.
You might as well give up, Jen. I’ve never seen where he has admitted to ever making an error…even when I pointed one out to him with a link to the truth.
No I didn’t. My preference has not changed and a I said and showed there are different ways to measure body mass and different definitions of what defines healthy, and obese though they are similar.
What people find attractive is very much individual although it generally falls along the lines of what we perceive as being healthy, fit, and symmetrical.
Go on call me names, insult me.