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Depending on how they measure obesity, this 1B number may be greatly overinflated. One very popular measurement is BMI which only considers height and mass, and
by acrooks 3y ago
Depending on how they measure obesity, this 1B number may be greatly overinflated. One very popular measurement is BMI which only considers height and mass, and does not consider other factors like fat vs. muscle mass, body water, etc.
For example, using BMI I am considered “obese” but I have a very high muscle mass and fairly low fat percentage (17%). So am I one of these billion people?
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIn my 30+ years, the vast, vast majority of obese people I see don’t look like they are obese due to muscle mass.
- scotty79 3y agoVery few people have high muscle mass and low fat percentage. So technically you are counted as obese but very small fraction of people counted as obese are like you.
- unmole 3y ago> this 1B number may be greatly overinflated Yeah, by the hundreds of millions of jacked folks you see everywhere /s
- imtringued 3y agoSure, why not. Since BMI is used at the population level some outliers don't make it wrong.