Kitchen Garden Forum

An interesting test - I come out as overweight (which I know I am) and got the message You're most like someone from Germany

Give it a try - you don't have to tell us your results

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328

Hi Alan,

Below average for my age. More like somebody from South Africa

Below average for UK.

Above average for rest of world.

Most like someone from Bosnia and Herzegovina

VPM
x

Below for both, like someone from Madagascar. Quite please to realise I've dropped 6 BMI points since Christmas!

Hi Alan,
I am above average on everything for my age with a MBI of 29.
I'm afraid that how it is going to remain!
I am the same weight I was when I was 35 so it would appear I have always been disgracefully overweight. My only claim to fame is that I have a larger chest than Dolly Parton!
JB.

Micronesia.

I am most like someone from Senegal which is strange as according to my exerciser I am just around the top level of my ideal BMI

Crikey, this question also appeared on another forum I frequent.

You have less body fat than 96% of males aged 45-59 in your country

and it suggests Zambia.
Of course, in my case I am guesing my weight as I don't own a set of scales and probably haven't weighed myself for a decade or more (so if I add a couple of pounds, I might be from neighbouring Mozambique).
By the way, when I estimate my weight, I do know that I have the same waist measurement as I did as a student in the late '70s.

Today I am most like someone from Swaziland.
Next Friday, when I've had my birthday, and assuming I haven't put on any weight, I shall be like someone from the Dominican Republic!

I'm a Yemeni. Below average. I liked this bit:

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 6,074,898 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population.

Now if everyone went a diet and exercise routine to achieve that how much would burning of all that fat contribute to global warming?

Geoff wrote:Now if everyone went a diet and exercise routine to achieve that how much would burning of all that fat contribute to global warming?

Probably a great deal less than the agricultural footprint of keep them fat.

Well, apparently I'd fit right in - in Ethiopa. BMI of 19. Well below average.

However, on another BBC site - I am l8.9 - which is counted as within normal range.

Now I am comfused.

Most like someone from Eritrea!!!

And my BMI came out at 21, right in the middle of the "normal" range.

Like someone from Brazil - BMI below UK average but above global average.

There is one consolation about the BMI which must apply to many of us gardeners: muscle is heavier than fat so, if you have strong muscles, you are likely to have a high BMI without being fat! That's my excuse, anyway.

France - so at least I don't have to travel far to 'fit' in. BMI 25 which is well pleasing as was 29 a year or so ago.

Westi