Weight/Fitness vs Health
Humans tend to go with their first impressions upon seeing the size of a person. That overweight person at the store must be unhealthy and that skinny person is assumed to be healthy; it’s what society has told us so it has to be true. Reality check! It is possible to be overweight and fit as possible as it is to be skinny and unfit, but which one is worse? Research indicates that people who are overweight and fit are just as healthy as a healthy average weight person, thin people can get the same issues as an overweight person, and BMI is deceptive. Research done by the U.S. and Europe states that being fat and fit has the same risks of developing heart disease as a healthy average weight person, as long as they are …show more content…
Having a “healthy” weight and doing nothing about it isn’t what keeps our bodies healthy. Being lazy at a “healthy” weight causes skinny fat. Skinny fat is a real term, not only is it a common term, it is deadly term! A skinny fat person may look fit and healthy while wearing clothes, but seeing them at the beach is a different story. Skinny fat occurs when there is more fat than muscle, this is what also causes cellulite. Women are more prone to this then men because women naturally have more fat than men. Body mass indexes set people in a weight category: underweight, average, overweight, or obese. The formula to calculate BMI divides the weight of a person by their height (in inches) squared and times that by 703. There are so many things that are wrong with this formula. According to BMI there are people that rest in the overweight category but have more muscle then fat (there is nothing unhealthy about that) BMI does not take that factor into consideration. The BMI formula was created by a mathematician (who only cares about numbers) not a physician (who takes big bones and muscle mass into calculation). Another subject is that the United States is classified as an obese country because of our BMI. It’s amusing how the differences in the categories for BMI is all determined by nothing more than a few decimal
Humans tend to go with their first impressions upon seeing the size of a person. That overweight person at the store must be unhealthy and that skinny person is assumed to be healthy; it’s what society has told us so it has to be true. Reality check! It is possible to be overweight and fit as possible as it is to be skinny and unfit, but which one is worse? Research indicates that people who are overweight and fit are just as healthy as a healthy average weight person, thin people can get the same issues as an overweight person, and BMI is deceptive. Research done by the U.S. and Europe states that being fat and fit has the same risks of developing heart disease as a healthy average weight person, as long as they are …show more content…
Having a “healthy” weight and doing nothing about it isn’t what keeps our bodies healthy. Being lazy at a “healthy” weight causes skinny fat. Skinny fat is a real term, not only is it a common term, it is deadly term! A skinny fat person may look fit and healthy while wearing clothes, but seeing them at the beach is a different story. Skinny fat occurs when there is more fat than muscle, this is what also causes cellulite. Women are more prone to this then men because women naturally have more fat than men. Body mass indexes set people in a weight category: underweight, average, overweight, or obese. The formula to calculate BMI divides the weight of a person by their height (in inches) squared and times that by 703. There are so many things that are wrong with this formula. According to BMI there are people that rest in the overweight category but have more muscle then fat (there is nothing unhealthy about that) BMI does not take that factor into consideration. The BMI formula was created by a mathematician (who only cares about numbers) not a physician (who takes big bones and muscle mass into calculation). Another subject is that the United States is classified as an obese country because of our BMI. It’s amusing how the differences in the categories for BMI is all determined by nothing more than a few decimal