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WHR vs. BMI
Topic Started: May 11 2010, 01:52 PM (377 Views)
musicasacra
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http://www.livestrong.com/article/93638-whtr-the-new-determinant-health-risk/
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Aqua Letifer
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Yeah, as good a rule of thumb as any I suppose.

I've always been a fan of percent body fat.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Larry
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Ah..

I thought they'd started a new royalties agency....
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taiwan_girl
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Aqua Letifer
May 11 2010, 01:54 PM
I've always been a fan of percent body fat.
So more is better? ;) Just kidding.

The article makes sense I think. It all comes down to eating healthy and exercising.
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big al
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Larry
May 11 2010, 08:05 PM
Ah..

I thought they'd started a new royalties agency....
Interesting how acronyms/initialisms mean different things to different people. Here's an example I recently encountered reading a scientific article: TTL. Being an electrical engineer, I think immediately of transistor-transistor logic when I see TTL. Even though the article defined TTL as tubulin-tyrosine ligase, I still had a hard time not immediatly thinking transistor-transistor logic when I encountered TTL in the article.

Sometimes I encounter this when I try to find an organization by typing in its abbreviation as a web address; for example, nema.org works for the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association. but pso.org takes me to the Pacific Symphony, not the Pittsburgh Symphony. The initials of the company I work for lead to a manufacturer of cabinets and fixtures in Minnesota. I discovered that when someone asked me why our website's name had the word net ahead of the .com.

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ivorythumper
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So a 6' man with a 38" waist line is borderline overweight?
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Red Rice
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That WHR is pretty forgiving. I would think that a 6' man with a 38" waist is significantly overweight.
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Riley
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• Ratio 46 to 53: Healthy, Normal Weight


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Riley
May 12 2010, 08:58 PM
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• Ratio 46 to 53: Healthy, Normal Weight


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• Ratio 43 to 46: Healthy

OK, upper end, but I have a lot more years eating and a lot slower metabolism....
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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John D'Oh
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Thank God, I'm no longer overweight. MS - I am forever in your debt! :thumb:

In reality, I'm about 15 pounds heavier than I'd like to be. When I did the 'are you a porker?' test on the Nintendo Wii, it painted me as borderling obese, which is absolutely bloody ridiculous. I hate to think what the stupid test does to the self-confidence of children who are a little heavy. My kids thought this was so funny they faked a character and both stood on the weighing mat together to create this Augustus Gloop like figure.
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Axtremus
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May be the Japanese just have a different standard for what counts as obesity.
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John D'Oh
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Axtremus
May 13 2010, 04:47 AM
May be the Japanese just have a different standard for what counts as obesity.
Maybe they need to attend cultural sensitivity training classes. Never mind all that nonsense with the bowing and admiring the business cards - stop laughing at the fat gaijin!
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Axtremus
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More likely, the Brits just have a different standard for cultural sensitivity.
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John D'Oh
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Axtremus
May 13 2010, 05:33 AM
More likely, the Brits just have a different standard for cultural sensitivity.
We've always been renowned for being highly sensitive to the whacky behaviour exhibited by lesser cultures.
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