Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index

Pencilnoob@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Height selection on metric side has jumps of up to 3 centimeters lmao. Makes me doubtful about the accuracy since I’ve never before seen that

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  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Height selection on metric side has jumps of up to 3 centimeters lmao.

    Too lazy to look, but given 1 inch = 2.54 cm, my guess is the tool is written in inches, and just rounds those values to the nearest whole cm, thus alternating between 2 & 3 cm increments.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t Americans deal with differences smaller than 1 inch when it comes to height, is it just 2 footies 7 incherinos? I’m so used to it being per cm.

      Tbh I’ve never before seen a dropdown selector for height before either. It’s always just fill in thing.

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  • lurklurk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_roundness_index#Calcul…](The wikipedia page) has a calculator that supports metric more properly

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• dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How come there’s a metric button that doesn’t work?

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  • scott@lem.free.as ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Worked for me.

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Drag tried on mobile and PC. Every time drag clicked metric, it reloaded and switched back to imperial.

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      • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why are you referring to yourself in the third person?

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• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hmm, that puts me at BRI of 2.1, and BMI of 35.4

  Those both seem incredibly off.

  But I do have extra dense bones apparently, which tends to be mostly what screws with my BMI, and my ability to float/swim. But they seem really hard to break, not that I try very hard… but none of them have broken yet. And I’ve been in situations that seem like they should have broken.

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• Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is giving me body fat percentages that are around double what I get from other methods. Not sure what’s up, but I don’t really believe my 5’8" 150lb ass is 30% body fat

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We’re the same height and weight and I got 22%. No. Way.

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• Sirence@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s incorrect, it claims my body fat is 19% when I know for an absolute fact it’s 22%.

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thank-you

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