I am borderline obese!

[Brenngun]

I decided many years ago as a 20 year old not to play the your too tall, too short, too anything with the insurance industry. I've never paid a single penny of personal life insurance premium in my life and never will. Life's a gamble to begin with. I don't need to pay someone to play along with me. Especially if they have their thumb on the scale.

[rr-nyc]

Originally Posted by BNALION

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While the BMI works for 90%+ of the population, there are several other factors that need to be take into consideration.

Body fat%, body type, etc.


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[Sublover2166]

I would not be surprised if the insurance industry created the whole BMI so they can jack up their rates on folks deemed overweight and high risk for physical issues. At 5 ft.8, it says I should weigh around 150 pounds or so. No way, I would have to be anorexic to be that thin. I weigh in at 215, exercise 5 days a week on average and try to eat sensibly. If I am considered obese, hey so be it.

[Rolex addict]

Originally Posted by Ruud Van Driver

BMI is BS. It's simply calculated using height and weight and does not factor muscle mass or fat content. Absolute nonsense

Amen!!!

[Drudge]

Damn 205lbs @ 9% is beastly. I stand 5'7" 170lbs @10% and look like Im in the 180s. You must be genetically gifted my friend and I would consider it a blessing.

[Ruud Van Driver]

Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

At 6'2" 175 lbs I would getting checked for a tapeworm.

I'm 6'1" 185 lbs and I'm not a big guy. I'm pretty small boned too, only size 7.5 feet (8 US)

Originally Posted by brandrea

Interestingly, I'm also at 19% body fat. No tape worm as far as I know

Maybe it's an alligator?

[Mick P]

Chaps

I am 67 years of age and when my tailor last measured me for my suit, he commented that "Sir is of a portly disposition" .

I have been to a gym on just a handful of occasions and my working life has always involved long boozy lunches in ridiculously expensive restaurants.

I now seem to spend a lot of time attending funerals of friends who spent their entire life keeping fit in gyms or jogging etc.

Regards

Mick

[Abdullah71601]

Originally Posted by Mick P

Chaps

I am 67 years of age and when my tailor last measured me for my suit, he commented that "Sir is of a portly disposition" .

I have been to a gym on just a handful of occasions and my working life has always involved long boozy lunches in ridiculously expensive restaurants.

I now seem to spend a lot of time attending funerals of friends who spent their entire life keeping fit in gyms or jogging etc.

Regards

Mick

I read a study recently that essentially said being modestly overweight isn't bad in itself, it's how the body weight interacted with other risk factors that is important.

I go to the gym because I like to work out. I don't go to ridiculously expensive restaurants because they usually aren't worth the ridiculous expense. People aren't dropping dead around me (yet, thank God), but I do see a lot of people who struggle to get off the couch and huff and puff up a few stairs. Some of those people are skinny blokes, which leads me to believe that the newer studies on weight gain are much more useful than some of that old BMI drivel that insists skinny is the ultimate goal to long life.

[RationalPragmatist]

Since a muscular individual with a low percentage of body fat may be classified obese using the BMI formula, it's a well-known deficiency; even insurance companies like AIG know that; see their BMI exception here:

https://www.aigdirect.com/learning-c...rance-rates#fv

So probably best to find a new insurance carrier that's clued in. For your 112/82 BP though, your diastolic reading could be considered pre-hypertension.

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Ruud Van Driver

I'm 6'1" 185 lbs and I'm not a big guy. I'm pretty small boned too, only size 7.5 feet (8 US)



Maybe it's an alligator?

I'm not sure, but whatever it is, I haven't gained much weight since high school

[Star Ferry]

I am 5'8" 165 pounds. I am at the edge of being considered overweight. My body fat level is nowhere near as impressive as that of the OP -- caliper test suggests around 18%

2 months ago, I started working out again. Simple 5K jogs every weekday and three days of lifting. Hoping to settle at about 160 pounds.

Regarding BMI, I don't fully trust it but I think it's a good guideline. I believe there is some health benefit to having a slighter build (independent of body fat percentage). HK locals don't eat particularly well, hardly exercise and yet they live a long time -- my unproven suspicion is that BMI plays a role here.

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[ajas]

BMI was developed in 1830 not for individuals but statistics studies on larger populations and should be nothing else.

[jdlc1406]

If your insurance company is insisting on using BMI for your rates, than insist on a proper BMI test. A water displacement test. On their dime. Screw em.

[gtnator]

Ask them to send a nurse for observational confirmation. Some have an exception for "extreme athletic build".


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[azguy]

I do insurance from time to time and the charts are like from the 1950's, it's laughable.

I work out everyday and I'm 5'9" and 218 lbs as of yesterday, last caliper test I had was 11% body fat.

[Fredrik]

Originally Posted by ajas

BMI was developed in 1830 not for individuals but statistics studies on larger populations and should be nothing else.

+1

I would pick a different insurance company.

[masyv6]

BMI is a silly measure of body composition.

[Abdullah71601]

Originally Posted by Star Ferry

I am 5'8" 165 pounds. I am at the edge of being considered overweight. My body fat level is nowhere near as impressive as that of the OP -- caliper test suggests around 18%

2 months ago, I started working out again. Simple 5K jogs every weekday and three days of lifting. Hoping to settle at about 160 pounds.

Regarding BMI, I don't fully trust it but I think it's a good guideline. I believe there is some health benefit to having a slighter build (independent of body fat percentage). HK locals don't eat particularly well, hardly exercise and yet they live a long time -- my unproven suspicion is that BMI plays a role here.

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Everybody is living a long time, and always have. If you take infant mortality out of the life expectancy formula it turns out that people have always been living a long time (Ben Franklin was an overweight pipe smoker who lived to 84). The human body has a typical time span and the numbers don't change much over the centuries.

Indexes like BMI aren't based on any real data that directly associates health to body attributes. It's voodoo used to describe something not well understood for people who need some kind of 'measure' to manage risk.

[Tony64]

Interesting topic. Numerous studies from the Mayo clinic and others show pretty convincingly that mortality is lower in the moderately overweight and higher in underweight individuals, based largely on BMI.

Food for thought...