Can you pick out who is fat?
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Does this bathing suit make me look fat?
Study Says Obese Don’t Know They’re Obese
About 90 percent of normal weight adults and 85 percent of overweight and obese adults accurately self-reported their weight and height such that the BMI calculated using those self reports fell in the same category as actual BMI.
That accuracy changed, however, when researchers asked participants about their perceived weight status, that is, if they would consider themselves NOW to be underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. Seventy-one percent of normal weight and seventy-three percent of overweight adults classified themselves correctly, compared to only 15 percent of obese adults who correctly considered themselves to be obese.
The researcher then asked participants how much they would need to weigh to be classified as either underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese, and again the results varied depending on current weight status. On average, normal weight participants were reasonably accurate in these estimates, but obese participants overstated how much they could weight for every weight status category, from underweight to obese. For example, if a participant was 5;7″ and normal weight, they would estimate normal weight as 143 pounds (BMI = 22.4 kg/m squared) and obesity as 189 pounds (BMI = 29.6 kg/m squared) but an obese participant the same height would estimate normal weight as 164 pounds (BMI = 25.7 kg/m squared) and obesity as 233 pounds (BMI – 36.5 kg/m squared.)
More research is needed into why obese adults do not consider themselves to be obese, with two possibilities being perception and denial.
Denial!! You think???
I’m a smirky thin person and I agree with the eat less, excercise more motto. I workout about 4 times a week, either something like a 2-3 mile run of weightlifting, and I monitor what I eat. I always look at labels to see how much saturation and trans fat I’m getting, try to get a lot of protein, and I try to stay around the 2200 calorie a day recommendation. The system works.
I have obese friends, and dare I say, they do no work out, and when they try, it’s a very pathetic workout. They eat a lot of pizza, chocolate, soda pop, and everything else that’s bad for your body.
While the eat less motto isn’t exactly right- it should be eat healthier. Sure some people have a legit physical condition that doesn’t help or larger bone structure or some other rationalization like that. I still thing the BMI is, for the most part, a good scale. I think some of you are in denial like the rest of the obese world. When a majority are overweight, it blurs your vision or what a normal weight person actually looks like.
>>Aren’t Tom Cruise and Michael Jordan classified as obese?
Not sure about Michael Jordan, but Tom Cruise has officially been classified as “deviant”.
Hope this helps.
Ugh, you guys are a bunch of jackals. Here’s a link to a photo of my thin, vegan, 162 lb friend. Maybe definitions of “rail thin” vary, but she’s freakin’ thin. I know her weight because we weighed in together for an athletic challenge. Since the scale was accurate for me, I know it was accurate for her. Maybe her healthy diet means her bones are denser. Maybe her athleticism makes her muscles denser. Or here’s a thought, maybe the girls you geeks *allegedly* know are lying about their weight. I have NEVER met a girl who didn’t knock at least 15 to 20 lbs off her actual weight. And the way you guys go on, who can blame them? Anyway, here’s the link:
http://i1.tinypic.com/v741u1.jpg