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Is Ireland generally a fat country, on average?

Fbjm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328#G1A21H1.88W79.38C79

I just took this BMI test thingie there, and according to that I'm fatter than 52% of people in my age group across the world, but skinnier than 66% of Irishmen. I found that a bit shocking, really.

What are peoples' thoughts on this, are we a nation of couch potatoes? Or what? Thanks.

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mossy95

Take all the underdeveloped countries into account and you statistic is not too shocking

IM0

bmi is a load of ****e, it doesnt mean **** all for individuals, no doubt someone will chime in later with the relevant source. it was never intended to be used on an individual personal basis only for large data average from the population

pickarooney

It's pretty fat. Not Samoa fat but slowly getting there.

Fbjm

pickarooney wrote: »

It's pretty fat. Not Samoa fat but slowly getting there.

Samoa weight to pack on before then I guess.

I'm sorry, that was bad.

FreshKnickers

BMI is it? And where are we flying to then? Nowhere I suppose, if we're too fat that the plane won't get off the ground.

IM0

Fbjm wrote: »

Samoa weight to pack on before then I guess.
I'm sorry, that was bad.

Ive seen ALOT worse tbh

ALOT

Banjo String

Snack boxes, spice burgers, puddin, tayto and Guinness.....

Are ye surprised?

Hownowcow

SamHall wrote: »

Snack boxes, spice burgers, puddin, tayto and Guinness.....

Are ye surprised?

No, I'm hungry.

Wanderer2010

Maybe I have just been unlucky with sights but I spent all Saturday in Dublin city and 2 days in Galway last week, in the middle of all the hot weather and I can count on one hand the amount of heavy people I saw. For all the statistics on all the overweight and obese people in Ireland I saw nothing but slim fit and toned men and women out and about in shorts and bare torsos. Taking into account many overweight people probably avoid crowds, in two highly populated cities I saw very little evidence of them.

Also, most shops simply havent caught up to the obesity crisis in this country. Shops like Pennys, TK Maxx and Jack and Jones STILL cater for a client base of 34W 32L, when all the heavy people are surely 40W and heavier, but these options cannot be found, the country is still only catering for the 1990s Ireland and has a lot of work to do. So in short Ireland is apparently a heavy country but maybe most of these people are in hiding!

ChunkyLover_53

Irelands not fat she's just big boned.

Have you seen the size of the hole on Great Britain?

carzony

What exactly is Bmi? I hear this test being done everywhere but never actually had one myself..

From previous posts I presume it's testing if your a fat f*ck?How would one take a bmi could scales not just tell i'm fat?

FreshKnickers

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

Irelands not fat she's just big boned.

Have you seen the size of the hole on Great Britain?

You might be biased though Chunky Lover.

IM0

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Maybe I have just been unlucky with sights but I spent all Saturday in Dublin city and 2 days in Galway last week, in the middle of all the hot weather and I can count on one hand the amount of heavy people I saw. For all the statistics on all the overweight and obese people in Ireland I saw nothing but slim fit and toned men and women out and about in shorts and bare torsos. Taking into account many overweight people probably avoid crowds, in two highly populated cities I saw very little evidence of them.

Also, most shops simply havent caught up to the obesity crisis in this country. Shops like Pennys, TK Maxx and Jack and Jones STILL cater for a client base of 34W 32L, when all the heavy people are surely 40W and heavier, but these options cannot be found, the country is still only catering for the 1990s Ireland and has a lot of work to do. So in short Ireland is apparently a heavy country but maybe most of these people are in hiding!

well duh, in pubs, their houses, couches you get the idea

IM0

carzony wrote: »

What exactly is Bmi? I hear this test being done everywhere but never actually had one myself..

From previous posts I presume it's testing if your a fat f*ck?How would one take a bmi could scales not just tell i'm fat?

its next to useless for lots of reasons a couple I stated earlier. hopefully someone will be along later with more detailed info

you should be more concerned with your body fat percentage this is the real measure of obesity, if you are 25% or more and male [32% for women] you are obese. to give you a starting point. the average is about 21%

Feathers

carzony wrote: »

What exactly is Bmi? I hear this test being done everywhere but never actually had one myself..

From previous posts I presume it's testing if your a fat f*ck?How would one take a bmi could scales not just tell i'm fat?

From the BBC:

BMI stands for body-mass index. It’s a calculation based on a person’s height and weight and is used by doctors to assess whether someone is “obese” or “overweight”. It ranges from around 15 (near starvation) to over 40 (morbidly obese). A BMI greater than 25 is considered overweight. A measure over 30 would be obese. The index is not a perfect measure, however. It is possible for a healthy, muscular athlete with very low body fat to be classified obese using the BMI formula.

carzony

Feathers wrote: »

From the BBC:

just checked mine it says i'm 22.. A lower bmi than 70% of males in Ireland and a lower bmi than 52% males aged 15-29 in the world...

IM0

Feathers wrote: »

From the BBC:

thats junk data, they are half right

For mine to be in the 'healthy range' I'd have to be between 9 and 11 stone? lol, piss off.

I would despise being that skinny.

carzony

What weight should your average 21 year old be anyway ?

IM0

carzony wrote: »

What weight should your average 21 year old be anyway ?

depends on height

carzony

IM0 wrote: »

depends on height

i forgot google is my friend lol

well i'm just over 6 foot and had a look through google and it says I should be 14 stone :eek::eek: **** me i'm 12 stone now and have a bit of a belly on me..

Yellowblackbird

carzony wrote: »

just checked mine it says i'm 22.. A lower bmi than 70% of males in Ireland and a lower bmi than 52% males aged 15-29 in the world...

Did you take your shoes off or leave them on

Real Life

BMI is not a very good scale to go by in my opinion but according to the test my BMI is lower than 94% of males in my age bracket in the country

Herb Powell

Having been to the USA, England, and Germany, **** no, we are not a fat country. Not the slimmest, but not even anywhere close to the USA.

Czarcasm

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Maybe I have just been unlucky with sights but I spent all Saturday in Dublin city and 2 days in Galway last week, in the middle of all the hot weather and I can count on one hand the amount of heavy people I saw. For all the statistics on all the overweight and obese people in Ireland I saw nothing but slim fit and toned men and women out and about in shorts and bare torsos. Taking into account many overweight people probably avoid crowds, in two highly populated cities I saw very little evidence of them.

Also, most shops simply havent caught up to the obesity crisis in this country. Shops like Pennys, TK Maxx and Jack and Jones STILL cater for a client base of 34W 32L, when all the heavy people are surely 40W and heavier, but these options cannot be found, the country is still only catering for the 1990s Ireland and has a lot of work to do. So in short Ireland is apparently a heavy country but maybe most of these people are in hiding!

I don't think that's a fair assessment tbh. I buy my black pants in Penneys (34W 30L, I'm a bit of a shortàrse - 5'10") and I have terrible trouble getting pants in my size as they're usually all sold out and all they have left are 32, 38, 40 pants left on a Saturday if I don't get in on Tuesday when they get in new stock.

I just tried the BMI calculator here and at 5'10", 14 stone, my BMI comes up as 28.1 which it says is "overweight".

Even at 17 stone this time last year you wouldn't have thought I was overweight and I STILL couldn't get a 36W pants in Penneys on a Saturday!

Fbjm

Czarcasm wrote: »

I don't think that's a fair assessment tbh. I buy my black pants in Penneys (34W 30L, I'm a bit of a shortàrse - 5'10") and I have terrible trouble getting pants in my size as they're usually all sold out and all they have left are 32, 38, 40 pants left on a Saturday if I don't get in on Tuesday when they get in new stock.

I just tried the BMI calculator here and at 5'10", 14 stone, my BMI comes up as 28.1 which it says is "overweight".

Even at 17 stone this time last year you wouldn't have thought I was overweight and I STILL couldn't get a 36W pants in Penneys on a Saturday!

My measurements are the inverse of yours and I have the same issue. You can't get 30W 34L anywhere, it's always either the wrong waist or the wrong length. It's like their target market is a barely fluctuating but popular demographic.

ToddyDoody

carzony wrote: »

What exactly is Bmi?

Its the average amount of people a priest can draw to a mass in a given time period. Anything above 30 is big.

Ilyana 2.0

According to that, my BMI is 26, thus I am overweight. But an online body fat calculator gives me 27% body fat, which isn't overweight for a woman.

Well I'm confused.

EDIT: I'm most like someone from Chile

Smeggy

You have a higher BMI than 98% of females aged 15-29 in your country

You have a higher BMI than 95% of females aged 15-29 in the world

:eek:

FreshKnickers

I'm not sure how an online body fat calculator would work. What do you do, put in what you weigh?