[WarriorInAWig]

I'm most like a male from Haiti! Ooo err.

[silentlife]

You guys should watch "The Men Who Made Us Fat" (a BBC documentary). It is very informative in why obesity is increasing...

[PinkyPurply]

Well that was depressing.

[izpenguin]

I know this is very innaccurate since I'm under 18, but:
BMI 18
Lower than 95% of females aged 15-29 in my country
Lower than 79% of females aged 15-29 in the world
Most like someone from Vietnam
If everyone had the same bmi as me, it would remove 65,529,158 tonnes from the total weight of the worlds population

[Spontogical]

BMI 21
Lower than 91% of males aged 15-29 in my country
Lower than 68% of males aged 15-29 in the world
You are amazing
If everyone had the same body fat as you it would remove 38,836,872 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population
Most like someome from Laos*

[Chrisateen]

(Original post by HFerguson)
average BMI in the US is 27.7... that means 1 in 2 people you meet is overweight. How tragic!

Was quite shocked though to see my BMI had gone up to 24... strong dreamer bulk. BMI is a bit **** though as it doesn't take into account body composition.

UK not far behind I found this from the bbc website:

"In the UK an estimated 60.8 per cent of adults and 31.1 per cent of children are overweight. According to figures from 2009, almost a quarter of adults (22 per cent of men and 24 per cent of women) in England were classified as obese (BMI 30kg/m² or over)."

[Serentonin]

17bmi

You have a lower BMI than 97% of females aged 15-29 in your country

You have a lower BMI than 85% of females aged 15-29 in the world

Vietnam. Lovely.

[Mechie]

(Original post by Mark85)
It also doesn't differentiate between men and women. At 5'7" for example, 8 stone 7lbs is within the 'normal' range. Now, for a woman, that might not be so bad but most men at 5'7" would be severly underweight at only eight and a half stone and could only reach that by amputation.

Really? I'm about 5'8" and 9 stone, which isn't that much more than you've said.

[Mark85]

(Original post by davidmarsh01)
Really? I'm about 5'8" and 9 stone, which isn't that much more than you've said.

According to your profile you are 18. Men often continue to grow into their mid twenties. Even if you have finished growing heightwise it is fairly likely that you will continue to grow broader and pack some more muscle and soft tissue weight on. Also, your bone density will probably continue to increase into your mid-to-late twenties. In other words, if you are the same weight in ten years - you will probably be noticeably skinnier than you are right now.

Look at featherweight boxers like Barry McGuigan



At about 5'5-6", he fought at nine stone which means in practice that he was actually nine and a half stone or more and dehydrated down to nine for weigh in. He looks extremely skinny - can you imagine him a stone lighter than that?

Here is Bantamweight Jorge Arce at eight and a half stone at 5'4":



Narrow and extremely skinny. Now weight increases roughly with height cubed... Can you imagine someone 8cm taller who looks healthy or normal at that weight?

[de_monies]

(Original post by silentlife)
You guys should watch "The Men Who Made Us Fat" (a BBC documentary). It is very informative in why obesity is increasing...

It's not too bad, but I felt that it didn't touch on artificial sweeteners that manufacturers are using, which in some studies have been shown to be linked to weight gain, despite having zero or just the one calory. Aspartame seems to be the main one

Or, that sugar is sometimes disguised as sucrose, fructose or saccharide, along with the sweeteners ending in "ol" Xylitol is one that comes to mind immediately

Nor did they touch on high GI food, or how supermarkets have 50 calory ice creams, or 300 calory pizza's, and of course they're really tiny, or how certain products from say weightwatchers are more unhealthy than Sainsburys be good to yourself or Asda good for you

They touched on the "health halo" thing which I thought was a bit flawed. They had two products shown. One 12" Subway sandwich and one tiny burger from Mcdonalds. I'm not going to say that Subways is healthy. A lot of their products contain high levels of sodium, and some are genuinely healthy, but I'll say that I'll defend Subway here.

The 6" sub is more than enough to fill a person up, compared to one burger. The 12" sub came to around 900 calories or so, which is about 450 calories for the 6" sub. I'm guessing the burger had around 450 calories in it as well, but you wouldn't get full on that. With the burger, it's an almost definite that you'll get fries and a drink, but with Subways, so many times I've seen people buying sandwiches and just sandwiches(or "subs" as they call them). Most people get a 6" sub as well, unless perhaps they're really hungry. I've not seen the same behaviour at Mcdonalds

On a personal note, I was quite thirsty so I went in to Sainsburys to get a drink. They were sampling some juice - some tropical, and some orange juice (Sainsburys own) Both were made from real fruits. I tried both and I bought the tropical one. The woman then said that "it's better as well, because it doesn't contain sugar" At the time, I was thinking that of course it contains sugar, in the form of fructose and it said that it also contained aspartame, and the fact that a juice drink is not as good as eating the fruit as it is

[de_monies]

(Original post by davidmarsh01)
Really? I'm about 5'8" and 9 stone, which isn't that much more than you've said.

I'm 5'8" which is 1.72m. 9 stone is 57.1526kg, giving you a BMI of 19.3 apparently

[Bulbasaur]

(Original post by journalismus)
16bmi

National : Below average
You have less body fat than 99% of females aged 15-29 in your country

Global :Below average
You have less body fat than 91% of females aged 15-29 in the world

Did you know?
If everyone in the world had the same body fat as you, it would remove 92,567,982 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

You're most like someone from Vietnam.



This makes me sound malnourished, though I'm not!

I'm exactly the same No way am I malnourished though... maybe slim but I mean come on xD

[cid]

6ft 4, 102kg

BMI 27

most like ...someone from Greece




...What broke?

[de_monies]

(Original post by cid)
6ft 4, 102kg

BMI 27

most like ...someone from Greece




...What broke?

Greece did

[Smoosh]

This is cool

Here's mine:
BMI: 18
National: Below Average. You have a lower BMI than 96% of females aged 15-29 in your country
Global: Below Average. You have a lower BMI than 83% of females aged 15-29 in the world.
You're most like someone from Vietnam.

[DannyW94]

BMI: 19
National: Below average. Lower BMI than 97% of males aged 15-29 in your country.
Global: Below average. Lower BMI than 82% of males aged 15-29 in the world.
Most like someone from Bhutan.

(Original post by Smoosh)
This is cool

Here's mine:
BMI: 18
National: Below Average. You have a lower BMI than 96% of females aged 15-29 in your country
Global: Below Average. You have a lower BMI than 83% of females aged 15-29 in the world.
You're most like someone from Vietnam.

Very similar to yours actually Smoosh haha!

[Funtry]

Height 6ft 1
BMI:26-27 (know I'm between 14-14.5 stone)
Most like someone from the Solomon Islands. Interesting.

You have a higher BMI than 63% of males aged 15-29 in your country
You have a higher BMI than 83% of males aged 15-29 in the world

"If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 25,875,028 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population" I'm gonna go cry and eat a jar of nutella now.

[neom]

You have a lower BMI than 93% of females aged 15-29 in your country Global
You have a lower BMI than 75% of females aged 15-29 in the world

Did you know?
If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 57,359,967 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

Stop going on about BMI being rubbish, it's meant to be an estimate and a generalisation of the average person, not everybody is a bloody body builder

[TheGrinningSkull]

(Original post by patrickinator)
BMI 17

Apparently I am most like the average man in the congo

Same here!!! (BMI 18)

lower than 98% male 15-29 in the UK and lower than 85% in the world.

[No Future]

Vietnam, lol