The body mass index is measured the wrong way

Al – Wasat Newspaper – For the first time in my life. I discovered that the frame of an extra car wheel had developed around my body, so I decided to go on a diet to get rid of it. The diet was easy: eat less.

I lost 7 kg in three weeks and I started graciously.

To celebrate this feat, I recognized that I was calculating the mbad index of my body and, to surprise him, I found the figure "24.1", the only one I found. one of the highest numbers of the "natural" weight index between 18.5 and 24.9.

And through the rest of the tables of numbers, I found that I could lose 20 pounds more and not get out of the normal, but that would make me just bones covered by the skin.

Of course, that made me think: on the orbit of the BMI's approval scientifically?

Although basic health statistics go back to the 19th century, health experts have currently documented many defects and many times.

At first, the body mbad index does not differentiate whether the mbad is due to fat or body muscles The man (Michelin) tires and Superman can have the same BMI, regardless of the obvious differences and the muscles in their bodies.

He does not take any other factors to determine the health of the body of age, bad and body type (s).

For example, people who have fat in the rumen area are at greater risk of disease than fatteners in the bad and thighs.

My concern is that, nevertheless, the BMI is neglected in the basic physical rules. Lambert Adolphe's dilemma Jacques Quetelet, the Belgian athlete, is at the origin of the I & # 39; body mbad index in 1830.

Mathematics of the scale. The BMI is defined as the sum of the mbad on the square of length.

with the observation that the mbad corresponds to the size of the length of the cube.

The result for all this is equal to all values ​​of the mbad index directly with the length, which should not necessarily be so. We can blame Gulliver's Travels (17266) of Jonathan Swift for English satirical novelist Jonathan Swift, "Juliver's Travels", in the history of superheroes and superlatives that can not be obtained.

For example, say that a giant is twice as long as twice as long, but it has the same formality and the same structure.

If this giant stood on a flat beach without screens to obstruct his view, so that the observer does not notice by far that it is not me.

And because its mbad must match the length of the cube as it is for me, the double longitudinal will weigh eight times my weight.

Thus, the section of her legs will be proportional to the square of the height as I do, so she will only be four times stronger than the Arctic force.

These poor bones will be loaded with extra weight eight times! The giant will collapse under the pressure of his extra weight inevitably.

Similarly, to imagine another similar half-length, the price of my weight will increase, but the bones of the legs and muscles will be twice as strong as necessary.

Nature recognizes this dilemma, so that the bodies of elephants and ants resemble what they are.

The equation of body mbad index does not share this vision, it can make people heavier, while they are not.

By comparing a person's length of 152 centimeters (5 feet) with a normal BMI of 22, it would be the same as a person with a length of 183 cm (6 feet) with a 26.5 figure on BMI, Overweight.

According to body mbad indexes, most Australians will be considered obese, 28% will be considered obese, 35% are overweight, 35% will be normal weight and more than 2% will be considered below normal.

The overweight index will undoubtedly mean that there is a real health problem they are facing, but perhaps an increase in population density since 1830 has affected the result.

Fortunately for Quetlett, there were few people who possessed Koperman's bodies in his day to question his equivalence. Fortunately for Jonathan Swift, he was not there (a muscular engineer) to borrow his 12-gigabyte jubilee super-blast, stating that their weight should be over 100 tons, and a mbad index of over hundreds.

I do not recommend changing the way the body mbad index is calculated, regardless of its flaws: we do not want to take all the records of the last 188 years for BMI (raw data – length and weight); We can adjust the BMI standard for normal weight, underweight, overweight and fat for height, gender and body shape.

Perhaps then the engineer will be able to lean and relax rather than starve at the edge of skin and bones.

• Verification: Danah Abu Farha
• Followed by: Yammam Alyosuf
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