Bestaa
@Bestaa@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
BMI is generally useful as a form of shorthand for whether somebody is a healthy weight. Body composition, specifically body fat percentage, matters more. Bodybuilders often fall into the obese category for their height but you generally wouldn’t call them fat.
The original BMI calculation has received criticism for classifying shorter people and taller people incorrectly. Shorter people end up with a BMI that is proportionally too low and tall people proportionally too high.
You’re fairly tall, but still fall squarely in the overweight category with the new calculation (people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi_calc.html). Even with the new calculation, it’s still a shorthand method and won’t be accurate in all situations.
For a more accurate picture of whether you may want to consider losing Wright, a Dexa scan will determine you body fat percentage. General guidance is <20% for men and <25% for women.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The linked page uses the Mifflin-St Jeor Formula which appears to have been published in 1990. As someone acquainted with eugenics but not how BMR calculations play a role, could you share some I formation on how the two are related?
- Comment on Women in STEM 8 months ago:
Franklin might have won the prize, had she not died 4 years before the prize was awarded. Rules forbid the Nobel being awarded to the deceased.