BMI

A new study was released today that 20% of children are obese. This surprised me because the students in schools do not fit that description. Based on my observations about 5% are fat. So I thought maybe the discrepancy was do to the definition of obese so I did some research. There is something called the Body Mass Index (BMI) and if it is over 30 you are obese and if over 40 your suffer from severe obesity. You can calculate your BMI by taking your weight in kilograms and dividing by your height in meters. Now I am 6 feet tall and weigh 195 pounds. Changing to the metric system I am 1.83 meters tall and weigh 88.45 kilograms. Dividing these two numbers I come up with 48.3 which puts me in the severe obese category. Bah humbug