Where are you on the global fat scale?

[Slioch]

Glasgow, where Rab Nesbitt is fromc

Aye, that'll be right. And I will tell you this...........

I moved from London to Glasgow at age 25, and although having a Scottish father couldn't understand a bloody word people were speaking, so the advice I got was to watch Rab C on the telly. It worked!

 

[booze and cake]

I thought BMI was dead and it was waist to height ratio now or something? And I'm not saying that because I'm a BMI of 25 and on the cusp of being fatty fat Mcfat.

I come out as being most like someone from the Ukraine, really? So they're big on fish and chips, Tunnocks Tea cakes, Fruit & Nut and Stella Artois, who knew

 

[LarryDuff]

Apparently I am in better shape than 90% of the UK population of my age group. I am most like a person from Malawi.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Your numbers
Obesity Index
25bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is
National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than82% of males aged 60-69 in your country
Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than51% of males aged 60-69 in the world

Did you know?
If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 9,598,624 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population
You're most like someone from Swaziland*

 

[alicat]

A bit higher up than I was yesterday. Probably.

 

[slowmotion]

Swaziland. I don't think I would make the grade in the Reed Dance.

 

[perplexed]

Your numbers
Obesity Index
23bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is
National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 90% of males aged 45-59 in your country
Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 62% of males aged 45-59 in the world

I'm most like someone from the Yemen apparently!

I consider that I'd like to lose half a stone or so, so I'm not sure how I come to have a lower BMI than 90% of other blokes in the country. I suppose that BMI is a bit of a blunt instrument.

 

[RichardB]

Your numbers
Obesity Index
28bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is
National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 53% of males aged 60-69 in your country
Global
Above average
You have a higher BMI than 75% of males aged 60-69 in the world

Did you know?
If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 49,058,847 tonnes tothe total weight of the world's population

I'm amazed at this. I've lost weight recently, but I still consider myself overweight (28 bmi, but down from 34 a few months ago). And yet I am apparently below average for my age-group in the UK. I suppose it must be because people get heavier as they get older, and I am going the other way.

 

[pauldavid]

Micronesia, I'm not sure I like the sound of this!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Myanmar. I hope I don't need to tell my employer.

Index
24bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is
National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 87% of males aged 45-59 in your country
Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 58% of males aged 45-59 in the world

 

[Drago]

I thought BMI was dead and it was waist to height ratio now or something? And I'm not saying that because I'm a BMI of 25 and on the cusp of being fatty fat Mcfat.

I come out as being most like someone from the Ukraine, really? So they're big on fish and chips, Tunnocks Tea cakes, Fruit & Nut and Stella Artois, who knew

Yes, BIN is of no clinical value. I'm going through one of my porkier periods, but my chest is still 18" bigger than my waist. BMI ignores so many values variables, including somatotype and exercise levels, that its pointless. Fortunately these days it's less used by the medical profession itself and more likelihood be used by doubtless well-meaning but nevertheless badly informed practitioners, such as schools, police recruitment schmoes, that sort of thing.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I wonder where Scotland would feature on the list. I suspect off the scale.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 56,314,010 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population

Which would make gravity a bit stronger and getting up hills a bit harder. It's a vicious circle

 

[Julia9054]

I am carrying an extra half a stone at the moment due to a combination of moving house, therefore less time spent cycling and taking up beer!
Apparently I am still lighter that 78% of UK women in my age group!
Most like someone from Sudan apparently.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Your numbers
Obesity Index
22bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is
National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 95% of males aged 45-59 in your country
Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 74% of males aged 45-59 in the world

Did you know?
If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 24,351,402 tonnes fromthe total weight of the world's population
You're most like someone from Burundi*