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Old September 19th, 2003, 10:07 PM
janice
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This may be a bit of fun, but I find it hard to take seriously when it
tells me I have 23.8% bodyfat. I notice it doesn't ask for your
height. Can't work out what has caused it to give such a low figure -
do my 6.25 inch wrists cancel out my 41 in hips and 24 in thighs?
janice
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On 19 Sep 2003 03:08:04 GMT, (Beeswing) wrote:

x-no-archive: yes

I'm finding the standard weight-to-BMI charts to be worse than useless --
something that's been commented on a fair amount here. I tried the Health
Central one one out, and at least for me it seemed to make some sense:

http://www.healthcentral.com/cooltoo...s/bodyfat1.cfm

It measured my bodyfat at about what I'd imagine it at and gave me a BMI that
sounds like it could be reasonably accurate (22.5%). So having said that, has
anyone tried out this site? Any thoughts on it? D'ya think it's any better than
any of the other BMI guesstimates out there on the web?

I'm hoping to find a casual measurement I can at least put a little stock
in....

beeswing


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Old September 19th, 2003, 10:28 PM
determined
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"Beeswing" wrote in message
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x-no-archive: yes

I'm finding the standard weight-to-BMI charts to be worse than useless --
something that's been commented on a fair amount here. I tried the Health
Central one one out, and at least for me it seemed to make some sense:

http://www.healthcentral.com/cooltoo...s/bodyfat1.cfm

It measured my bodyfat at about what I'd imagine it at and gave me a BMI

that
sounds like it could be reasonably accurate (22.5%). So having said that,

has
anyone tried out this site? Any thoughts on it? D'ya think it's any better

than
any of the other BMI guesstimates out there on the web?


This site puts me at 19%, which is close, but a little low. THen there are
these sites...

http://www.biofitness.com/bodyfat.html
http://www.he.net/~zone/prothd2.html
http://www.fittec.com/bodyfat.htm


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Old September 19th, 2003, 11:01 PM
Jayjay
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:07:31 +0100, (janice) wrote:

This may be a bit of fun, but I find it hard to take seriously when it
tells me I have 23.8% bodyfat. I notice it doesn't ask for your
height. Can't work out what has caused it to give such a low figure -
do my 6.25 inch wrists cancel out my 41 in hips and 24 in thighs?
janice
233/161/133


ah ... in given your numbers you got, then how did I come up with
30.5% with my 37" hips and 23" thighs and 5.25" wrists...



On 19 Sep 2003 03:08:04 GMT,
(Beeswing) wrote:

x-no-archive: yes

I'm finding the standard weight-to-BMI charts to be worse than useless --
something that's been commented on a fair amount here. I tried the Health
Central one one out, and at least for me it seemed to make some sense:

http://www.healthcentral.com/cooltoo...s/bodyfat1.cfm

It measured my bodyfat at about what I'd imagine it at and gave me a BMI that
sounds like it could be reasonably accurate (22.5%). So having said that, has
anyone tried out this site? Any thoughts on it? D'ya think it's any better than
any of the other BMI guesstimates out there on the web?

I'm hoping to find a casual measurement I can at least put a little stock
in....

beeswing


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Old September 20th, 2003, 03:56 PM
Beeswing
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x-no-archive: yes

janice wrote:

I noticed it didn't ask for my
height, which must make some difference surely


You're right -- since it didn't ask for height, it lacks much credibility in my
book. I went there from an old bookmark I'd made. The lack of the height
measurement hit me when I went there originally, but I guess I wasn't paying
enough attention this time.

Toss that test out, then.

beeswing
 




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