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The new way to calculate if you are fat is to measure your waistline against your height. If your waistline measures 50% of your height you're getting to be a bit of a lardie and should cut back on the cakes.

I'm just inside so should live to be a grand old age.

The man on the news warns that if your waistline measures 80% of your height, you could be knocking 20 years off your life. Surely looking in the mirror should tell you that?

Forget BMI, who wants man boobs?

That is correct, power sports athletes usually have higher BMI but they are not fat.

I don't want to sound racists, but the left guy (for the viewers at home) looks scary!

I get my right and left mixed up and prefer people to point when I'm driving. I think you mean the man with tats. He looks Russian to me whereas the other one looks English.

Why do muscles look better on black men?

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[quote="pizza4mortimer"]Forget BMI, who wants man boobs?

I think you need to accept some responsibility for man boobs Mortimer! Think of all the calories you are delivering to people!

Pizza is bad!

I love Italian food. Your post reminded me of a trip to Venice. We rolled up to a resauranti and ordered spaghetti. Unbeknown to us we had ordered from the antipasti menu and when our meal arrived it wouldn't have fed a sparrow. We all went to bed hungry. The next night we chose a different restaurant and ordered spaghetti followed by pizza. Unbeknown to us we had ordered both meals from the main menu. I was rather puzzled when the waiters brought another two tables to make more room for the food. We managed to eat it all, I don't like waste. My mother always reminded us kids of the hardship endured by Biafrans if we dared to leave a morsel uneaten.

Actually the hip to waist ratio is a better indicator.

ETA - you're slipping BM!

How can your BMI slip?

BAI, or The Body Adiposity Index is a known tool for calculating obesity but new research by Dr Margaret Ashwell, of Ashwell Associates, Hertfordshire, and Oxford Brookes University, and Sigrid Gibson, of Sig-Nurture Ltd in Guildford, has shown that WHtR (waist height ratio) is a better indicator because it takes into account differing ethnic groups.

The BMI method has been branded inaccurate because it can show that people who are very muscular and therefore weigh a lot are obese when actually they have very little body fat as shown by the picture of the two boxers.

As presented to the European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France!

Looks like WHtR is the way to go.

Chocoholic wrote:Actually the hip to waist ratio is a better indicator

The WHR-ratio is culturally biased.

All these calculators are flawed at the end of the day, because they don't take into account that each person is an individual.

Chocoholic wrote:ETA - you're slipping BM!

Estimated Time of Arrival???

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joehart , Edited To Add. Come on, get up to speed with forum short hand.

Measuring the thickness of fat deposit areas is the best method.



Here is a demostration:

Not sure whether it's me Nucleus, but I find that picture a bit suggestive. That hand does not belong to that body!

I don't mind pinching more than an inch on my man. As long as he has a big bank balance to go with his big bum, I'm more than happy!

MrsMills ,



Your just a perve

Stay away from sugar...in all forms and you will be just fine...

MrsMills wrote:Not sure whether it's me Nucleus, but I find that picture a bit suggestive.

Not until you mentioned... thanks!

MrsMills wrote:That hand does not belong to that body!

You watched the video?

MrsMills wrote:I don't mind pinching more than an inch on my man. As long as he has a big bank balance to go with his big bum, I'm more than happy!

There are probably many men like that. But for many men, I don't think they need to spend lol

Nucleus wrote: You watched the video?

Nah. I was a bit frightened of what it contained. If it doubt don't click.

Video is ok, then the screen photo will make more sense.