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peteretep on July 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Helpless to Prevent Cancer? Actually, Quite a Bit ...

    > the difficulty lies in finding an individual to
    > measure that will make BMI fall apart

I'm 5'11 with a 36 inch waist. This gives me a waist-to-height ratio of 0.507, which has me just under or over the healthy cut-off, depending on who you ask[0].

I was 212lbs this morning, giving me a BMI of 29.6, which has me at the border of "Overweight" and "Obese Class I (Moderately obese)", and is high risk.

I don't think you'd think I was a weird shape if you looked at me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-to-height_ratio

parfe on July 6, 2016 [–]

>A WHtR of over 0.5 is critical and signifies an increased risk

Both measures put you in an at risk categories. Why doesn't that concern you?

peteretep on July 6, 2016 | [–]

It does, which is why I know exactly how much I weighed this morning.

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