64% of U.K. adults overweight ....

Imagine if the medical community used some of the above metrics as a measure of weight :ROFLMAO:

A lot of research output is based on BMI which directs medical decisions- so regardless if you agree with it or not personally, if you are in the overweight/ obese category your risk of varying conditions and complications rises.

The data used will include those that are indeed deemed overweight due to body fat, but those that aren't (e.g muscular rugby players) will still be used in the research and do not shift the output of the data enough for it not to still be a risk factor.

The guardian data is simply - 80% of intensive care patients at that time had high BMI (that would include broad shoulders, people who have a natural overweight weight, rugby players, people whos clothes fit, and anyone else with a BMI above the defined normal.
 
JM14 said:
Makes it seem even worse that the government are actively trying to discourage us from getting out and exercising
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You are perfectly entitled to go out and exercise. I don’t recall hearing anything from the government to the contrary.
 
Sadly 32 and suffering for it.

I have calculated if I grow another 10 inches I should be fine. Now where are those high heels.
 
BillyBoyStu said:
24.3 for me and I exercise (run/cycle) 5 times a week.
Its coming up a year now since covid has changed our lives, plenty of time for people to realise that being overweight is a major factor in ending up in hospital (and not just for covid) and do something about it.
Still there's minimum information in the press and television about this.
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Too many people fail to take any responsibility for their weight.

If I wasn’t careful about what I eat and didn’t exercise regularly I believe I could be obese.

I am a healthy weight and I maintain this in spite of any number of takeaways or food adverts.
 
bear66 said:
I can put on another 11 lbs and still be in the green! Fry up for lunch.
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I was taking that approach since the first lockdown, now I'm hitting the scales at 14Stone, a stone over my normal fighting weight for 5'-11-1/2". I blame it in my 'healthy' fry ups!
 
I've put 3 inches onto my waist during lockdown. I did next to no excercise prior, but would get out and about a fair bit walking here and there.
The danger is that people maintain the sedentary WFH lifestyle that the internet has enabled, once lockdown is lifted.
 
dnh81 said:
BMI isnt the best way to measure but is simple to calculate hence why its used.

The target weight for me according to NHS is 8-11 stone, at that level i would be a rake.
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Same here.

The BMI scale I don't pay much attention to.
 
JM14 said:
Any rugby player would be classed as obese based on BMI, its not the best calculator for weight.
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Also see offensive line men in NFL who could do 40 yard sprints quicker than most people on here and aren't unhealthy either.
 
since the 80s, people have embraced the fast food diet. It's become a part of people's weekly diet - McDonalds, KFC etc. When delivery of fast food became a thing it made the situation much worse....I mean you don't ever have to go to a Mcdonalds again if you don't want to, a delivery is just a call away.

The worrying thing is that young people don't know any different. Growing up in the 70s was filled with activity. Football in the winter and cricket in the summer. Our back field ALWAYS had somebody doing something. You simply turned up and joined in. That same field is now empty. I drive past often and never see kids in there. Sad to see. So for me, obesity is no surprise. The extent of having a poor diet was Fish and Chips once a week.
 
Wiseman_Vaughn said:
since the 80s, people have embraced the fast food diet. It's become a part of people's weekly diet - McDonalds, KFC etc. When delivery of fast food became a thing it made the situation much worse....I mean you don't ever have to go to a Mcdonalds again if you don't want to, a delivery is just a call away.

The worrying thing is that young people don't know any different. Growing up in the 70s was filled with activity. Football in the winter and cricket in the summer. Our back field ALWAYS had somebody doing something. You simply turned up and joined in. That same field is now empty. I drive past often and never see kids in there. Sad to see. So for me, obesity is no surprise. The extent of having a poor diet was Fish and Chips once a week.
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Yes there had been a massive life style change over the years,kids nowadays only get organised exercise and don't have the freedom of years ago whether it was playing sports with your mates or messing about playing tigs etc. over the beck or in nearby wooded areas.
Eating out and takeaways were for special occasions not just part of a normal night out eating rubbish like Patmos etc.
Little wonder we are in this situation but unfortunately it is now a cultural problem .
 
Based on this....

"in the UK, where almost 64% of adults are overweight or obese, nearly 20% of Covid patients in intensive care are of normal weight, 32% are overweight and 48% are obese"

...I'd love to see a breakdown of that 20%, 32% and 48% by age, but I think I already know what it will show.
 
smogontherhine said:
Based on this....

"in the UK, where almost 64% of adults are overweight or obese, nearly 20% of Covid patients in intensive care are of normal weight, 32% are overweight and 48% are obese"

...I'd love to see a breakdown of that 20%, 32% and 48% by age, but I think I already know what it will show.
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I think that is a fair query. Certainly one of the difficulties in taking this data is the source more generally.
 
BMI can be a bit misleading.

I used to have the odd 'old man' medical in the forces and have some fat nurse telling me I had a slightly high BMI. Despite the fact i was running 6-8 miles 5 times a week and fitter than I'd ever been😂

I've always had love handles and the odd moobs but always been fit and can often blitz skinny little rakes when running. The point being you can have a pounch and be fit.

That said just walk down town and you do see some proper fat knackers often with very overweight children. I popped into Greggs for a bru and two adults were probably 4-5 stone overweight with two very much over weight kids smashing in Steak Bakes at 0930. I just thought 'seriously'😂
 
I think Middlesbrough is higher than the average as well.

Obesity is a consequence of the government of the time believing fatty foods was the enemy. That lead to governments insisting food manufacturing lowered levels, but that resulted in massive increase in sugar in proceed foods. In the 70's there was actually a British Scientist warning sugar was the real problem. His lost the argument only to be proven right 40 years later.
 
I’m 6’5” and 17st7lbs. BMI is 28.9. I am classed as overweight according to that. I do need to do more exercise as have stopped gym-ing since Covid came along and gave hot lazy. Need to lose the kite.
 
El Guapo said:
I’m 6’5” and 17st7lbs. BMI is 28.9. I am classed as overweight according to that. I do need to do more exercise as have stopped gym-ing since Covid came along and gave hot lazy. Need to lose the kite.
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Do you need to change your user name then?
 
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