SetH
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ITs official, 1 in 4 people in the uk are clinically obese.
18458 CS members, im guessing we are all adults or near enough.
so thats around 4600 obese people on here
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Lynny
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Registered: 3rd Jan 03
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lets play guess the obese person
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SetH
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No lets not launch any personal attacks. Just heard this stat on the news, find it highly disturbing.
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J da Silva
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I don't expect most members to know the correct definition of obese, but if the thread would have been named "1 in 4 people in UK are FAT" I would be thinking the same as what most of you are thinking now.
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gianluigi
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im clinically under-weight 
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SetH
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well according to the BMI im overweight, but its because im a bodybuilder i have hardly any fat on me. the BMI doesnt account for lots of lean tissue mass. Cant have my bodyfat % down properly because they cant pinch anything on the calipers lol. Have to sit in some hydrotub thing to have it done properly.
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J da Silva
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Yes Seth, obese does not mean fat, it just means over the expected weight, Arnold Schwarzenegger was obese at his peek, merely because he was 19st, pure muscle none the less.
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IntaCepta
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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i'm actually bordering underweight 
don't have much of an appetite anymore
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SetH
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one of my mates is 18 stone competition weight and its bodyfat % is probably lower than everyones on here.
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Rus
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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i'm fat 
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J da Silva
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Yep, I'm nearly obese, another 3/4 of a stone and I'm there and I aint even fat, my fat percentage is 18% .
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Lynny
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iv had all these tests done, my BMI is lower than it should be, however my my body fat % tested, apparently its supposed to be 13-16%...mines 9% 
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SetH
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9% is way low for a female unless you are an athelete.
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J da Silva
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She's a hyperactive monkeh in the sack so I'm told. 
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Lynny
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im no athlete, do alot of excercise. had offical tests done as part of my health psychology course
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Bennn
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obese
A adjective
1 corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund
excessively fat; "a weighty man"
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corsa5dr
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Registered: 12th Jan 03
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I'm 13% Bf 12st 5
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Carl
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half the body mass tests are a joke and a waste of space. You need some serious equipment to get a proper body fat reading.
as said the height/weight ration bmi is about as accurate as a pissed up blind man due to no consideration of muscle mass.
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by VenomTurbo
Yes Seth, obese does not mean fat, it just means over the expected weight, Arnold Schwarzenegger was obese at his peek, merely because he was 19st, pure muscle none the less.
lol obese does mean fat you plonker
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Jamescorsa97
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Registered: 19th Aug 04
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13 st here, 14.9% body fat, that was done at the gym...but i reckon that machines rubbish!
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danny_vx
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When the word "obese" is used, most people immediately think of fat though, but of course I know what you guys are saying.. however, Judging by that statistic, I don't think 1 in 4 people are full of muscle..
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ssj_kakarot
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i know what you lot are getting at but i would hazzard a guess at the sample that was used to make that statistic was just of fat people, i cant see them trying to generilize a obesity study using heavily muscled people.
although there will have been a lot of people in the study probally, and it would have been an opertunity sample, i would presume that the majority of the people in the study were the pre-defined definition of fat you know.. just basically well fat.
so yeah obviously if you are well muscled you are technically obese as BMI if not designed for showing that, but for the purpose of this statistic i would assmume they just meen porkers.
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danny_vx
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nice one ssj u got my point accross in a much better way lol. hat off to you
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Natalie
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Registered: 5th Nov 03
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All fat people should join Fat Fighters
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CorsAsh
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Last time I had a medical I was about the right weight for my height. However I doubt I'm still there after a few years of student food/drink tho 
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