What else besides height/weight ratio is used to determine BMI?
I know this was sort of answered before, but BMI is height divided by the square of weight, then multiplied by some constant which I can't remember right now. So, pretty much what that means is that, in the old height/weight ratio system, it was considered that, for each inch of height, you should have a certain number of pounds. In the BMI system, you're "allowed" more pounds/inch for each additional inch.
So, if you consider 5'6" and 125 pounds as the baseline for "ideal," then BMI says "ideal" for someone 5'0" is 103.3. Height/weight says it's 113.6. On the other hand, using that same baseline, BMI says "ideal" for someone 6'0" is 148.8, while height/weight says 136.
IOW, I'm 4'10", and really hate the BMI scale.
Bitches is a NAFDA thread.
In this crazy modern world in which we live in?
"Yes, but even in the modern world, planes don't land in San Francisco when there's fog."
There goes Aimee quoting Beaches.
Oh thank dog! I wasn't sure if anyone would get that.
if you consider 5'6" and 125 pounds as the baseline for "ideal,"
Well, that's where the trouble starts, isn't it?
HAHAHA!
Oh, man. For a giggle, I calculated the BMI of my body at 0% fat?
Still in the normal/healthy range per BMI.
You know, I promise I'll shut up about the joys of body composition analysis, I really will, it's just that it's gone and sporked about a trillion of my BIDs in one go, and right now, I'm still feeling a little buzzed from that.
Well, that's where the trouble starts, isn't it?
Just needed some numbers to plug in, so that I'd get actual numbers coming out at the end, instead of variables. And I now realize that I didn't need to think about "ideal" at all -- just needed to put it as "what weight would give an equivalent height/weight ratio" and "what weight would give an equivalent BMI".
Oh thank dog! I wasn't sure if anyone would get that.
Ha! Of course, I would. I have the movie memorized.
