Body Mass Index Dispute
Fuck my health professor! He's an asshole! Why is he an asshole you ask? Because he said I need to lose weight because of my BMI (body mass index). Well you know what! Fuck that asshole!I am 19 years old and weigh 215 lbs. at a height of 6'1''. Now I tried to explain to my professor that I do not need to lose any weight because I have plenty of muscle mass which makes it look like I have a high BMI. I argued with him for about 5 minutes and he made it seem like I'm a bad person for having a BMI over 25.
These body mass index things are bullshit! He talked to each person individually who had a BMI over 25. My BMI is 28.4 but I am not fat by any means. Sure I have gained some extra baggage since I started college last Fall but my body fat % is only 13. He makes it seem like I'm obese and need help losing weight. It felt like he was putting me down. I am seriously thinking about going to the Dean and telling him how much of an asshole my professor is. It sucks I have 2.5 more months of his bullshit class!!!
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BMI also doesn't work on extremely tall people (7 footers)... I did a little expert when I was bored, I entered the weight of height and weight of a 7,3" 270lbs on a BMI calculator (result was 26.1 which is overweight). WTF? 270 lbs at 7,3" is anything but overweight! The following scaling formula makes much more sense than BMI.
hypothetical mass (hm)= real mass (rm) times (hypothetical height (hh)/real height (rh))^3
Note the power of three is used because because the volume of an object is a cubic relation (height *width*depth) for example, if you doubled the size of a cube it's volume would increase 8 folds (2*2*2=8) right?
for example, how much would a 7,3" (87 inch) 270 lb person weigh at 5,10" (70 inch)? Plug in the knows into the equation (simple math but requires a scientific calculator):
hm= rm (hh/rh)^3
= (270)(70/87)^3
=140.6 lbs
140.6 lbs at 5,10 overweight? I don't think so.
Posted 3 months ago | Report
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BMI dosent work unless you are sedentary.
Posted 2 months ago | Report
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BMI also doesn't work on extremely tall people (7 footers)... I did a little expert when I was bored, I entered the weight of height and weight of a 7,3" 270lbs on a BMI calculator (result was 26.1 which is overweight). WTF? 270 lbs at 7,3" is anything but overweight! The following scaling formula makes much more sense than BMI.hypothetical mass (hm)= real mass (rm) times (hypothetical height (hh)/real height (rh))^3
Note the power of three is used because because the volume of an object is a cubic relation (height *width*depth) for example, if you doubled the size of a cube it's volume would increase 8 folds (2*2*2=8) right?
for example, how much would a 7,3" (87 inch) 270 lb person weigh at 5,10" (70 inch)? Plug in the knows into the equation (simple math but requires a scientific calculator):
hm= rm (hh/rh)^3
= (270)(70/87)^3
=140.6 lbs
140.6 lbs at 5,10 overweight? I don't think so.
Posted 3 months ago | Report
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BMI dosent work unless you are sedentary.Posted 2 months ago | Report
