Obesity significantly increases risk of serious disease, researchers warn

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.

You said 25-30% is healthy. You said 32-35% is obese. Where is overweight/fat? 31%? :joy: Go on call me names, insult me.

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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.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/defining.html

Not at all, just trying to clarify what you said.

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No you aren’t, you intentionally misrepresented what I said until You were called on it.

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.

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I didn’t make an error.

Maybe not in this thread. However, you did change what you said. I don’t really know that either of them is correct.

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.

Blah, blah, blah! All you are posting are your opinions and preferences and trying to use them to define obesity.

No she’s not. You are an opinionated Know-It-All

Obesity begins at BMI=30
…and that’s just Class I Obesity

Class II runs from 35-39.9%

Class III Obesity starts at 40%
…and includes:

  • Severe
  • Morbid
  • Super

50% BMI is SUPER OBESE

What happened to 25-30%…?

That would be 25%…considered OVERWEIGHT

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Err no, many people have trouble losing weight due to mobility issues. And I wouldn’t qualify that percentage as very small. It’s exponentially harder to lose or maintain a healthy weight if you can’t engage in vigorous cardio due to joint or back problems.

Healthy

Beware the skinny cow. Secretly… they are hungry… very, very, hungry.

“After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile. And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows.”

:astonished:

No, once again the source I provided listed 20-30% as normal/healthy.

Once again you’re just arguing to be an ass.

Mobility issues and glandular disorders are completely different things. Glandular disorders was what he was referring to.

There is some deep rooted bitterness there and he’s just lashing out. He got dealt a bad hand along the way and it’s all our fault.

Horse hockey, you’re the one that’s been on the defensive throughout the thread and he’s just looking for an argument.

All I did was state my own preferences and facts.

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Very true and a very good point, Zantax.

I had my knee absolutely demolished by being sidelined playing volleyball. Never could run again and man, did I love running.

My neck and lower back are a mess from a bad water skiing incident.

But, where there is a will there’s a way. Yoga and exercising in a swimming pool for no stress or damage to joints is a good alternate. I am investigating “spools” for that very reason.

A record high number of Americans—40%, or more than 100 million adults—are living with diabetes or prediabetes according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Without significant changes, as many as 30% of people with prediabetes will go on to develop type 2 diabetes.

13% take medication for diabetes.

BMI is at best a crude measurement,

As a retired hockey player, non professional I still carry a great deal of muscle which weights more than fat. The BMI would consider me over weight however that certainly isn’t the case.