As I said earlier in the thread about the 5 year old boy who was also called clinically obese, you cannot use BMI on growing children. It doesn't take into account such things as bone mass and growth spurts, etc.

Having said that, this child isn't clinically obese. Not only that, these children that are being labeled as such when they're not are more likely to develop eating disorders.

Chloe's BMI score was 98, which is eight points above the healthy mark, according to health service guidelines.

Do the Brits use a different kind of BMI chart? The highest I've ever seen was 79 and that was for someone 330 lbs and just over 4 feet tall

ArkAngel: Chloe's BMI score was 98, which is eight points above the healthy mark, according to health service guidelines.

Do the Brits use a different kind of BMI chart? The highest I've ever seen was 79 and that was for someone 330 lbs and just over 4 feet tall

We figured out what they meant by that.

Chloe's BMI score was in the 98th percentile for children her age.

This is what happens when you let extremists run your damn country. You get nothing but idiocy.

/Left in Britain is almost as bad as the Right in our country

Maybe she should stop eating stones.

If she was one stone lighter she'd be at risk of herpes

Is this the same alarmist bullshiat that seems to sweep through the brit rags every once in a while? They never seem to follow up on these stories...

I'm having de ja vu.

My 13 year old son is 5'-5" and 145 lbs, which puts his body mass in the 98th percentile for his age, yet he is far from overweight. BMI is a pretty ridiculous measurement for people not at the apex of the bell curve.

how many times is this gonna be green this week

ltdanman44: how many times is this gonna be green this week

The other one was a boy fatty

Two in one day? WTH? Both of those kids look healthy but go nanny state and give them a complex.

cman: This is what happens when you let extremists run your damn country. You get nothing but idiocy.

/Left in Britain is almost as bad as the Right in our country

Um no, the American right hates Somalia, the British left wants to move it to south London.


/dang I just got trolled.

Welcome to ObamaCare!

/Dumbass Obama-zombie responses below!

Bathia_Mapes: As I said earlier in the thread about the 5 year old boy who was also called clinically obese, you cannot use BMI on growing children.

This. Silly UK.

i'm more concerned about trampoline related injuries. be careful little one.

Sooo, because the gender is different, it gets another green light?

The Daily Mirror is owned by pornographer Dirty Des and has trouble with factual accuracy like The Daily Mail and The Sun

So we should teach our children to have eating disorders?
/i'm running out of solutions

cman: This is what happens when you let extremists run your damn country. You get nothing but idiocy.

/Left in Britain is almost as bad as the Right in our country

David Cameron is a lefty?

I was often heavier then other kids my age, but not fat as a kid. Just not stick armed and legged like many other kids. Always been strong and active, even now my "healthy weight" is considered to be higher then most women my height because i have more muscle mass. That said, i do have too much fat now too, that I'm getting closer to middle age.

The little girl is a bit on the chubby side but kids tend to gain weight before they grow so don't see what the big deal is.

the Dunlap Measurement is a much more accurate method...has your belly dun lapped over your belt? you're fat. BMI is iffy at best.

I would consider pissing on Fark if it stopped posting these goddamn retarded non-stories from the pretend media. It's not fun or funny to read the media equivalent of reality television.

The Great Gazoo: My 13 year old son is 5'-5" and 145 lbs, which puts his body mass in the 98th percentile for his age, yet he is far from overweight. BMI is a pretty ridiculous measurement for people not at the apex of the bell curve.

That someone got paid to come up with the BMI and some other jackass got paid to make it the official measurement for healthcare is farking absurd.

If BMI can only be applied as an indicator for sedentary people that are obviously obese in the first place, what farking good is it? How many fit but stocky athletes does it classify as obese? How does BMI act as any sort of indicator for genetic predisposition or current ailments?

Shiatty people are getting paid money to apply this shiat science to the public, and when people ar fed such obviously asinine bullshiat, all it does is turn them off from actually learning about controlling and monitoring their health.

/Dumb science makes me stabby
//Chick is pretty hot

ltdanman44: how many times is this gonna be green this week

The earlier thread involving a 5-year old boy, this one involves a 5-year old girl.

Oh no I got an informational letter from the government! Alert the media! My life is over!

You have to be truly and honestly Jenny McCarthy level retarded to put any stock in BMI.

spleef420: the Dunlap Measurement is a much more accurate method...has your belly dun lapped over your belt? you're fat. BMI is iffy at best.



Well, yes, it has a little. I know I need to cut back some.

This is stupid. Back in my Army days, we used to do BMI and if you were over, they would pull out the skin fold calipers and take a measurement that way. Some of us were way over on BMI due to the insane amount of training we were doing. Do the British not know of this, or even how to apply common farking sense when they see a result that cannot possibly be right?

Again?

nytmare: Oh no I got an informational letter from the government! Alert the media! My life is over!

I mean automatic systems can't possibly send out warnings incorrectly right?

Yes, she's clearly overweight in that picture.

Her Dad looks overweight, but not horribly so. If her mom is significantly overweight, then the Nurses are right to try to get on top of the issue before it becomes a problem. But if her mom is just some overweight or less, there's no issue.

James F. Campbell: Again?

Different child.

Is there a worse way to analyze weight than the BMI?

According to most BMI calculators, I've been overweight to moderately obese since I was 15... back when I was playing hockey 6 days a week in the fall, winter and early spring, soccer 6 days a week in the spring and summer and football 5 days a week in the late summer, fall and early winter. And getting my rear kicked because I was a damned beanpole. Hell, I ended up growing a ratty looking goatee for my senior year of high school just so that I had someone obviously masculine about my body since I just couldn't pack on the weight or the muscles to do it in other ways. And yet according to the BMI I would have been considered at the top end of Normal and the low end of Overweight during all those years when I refused to wear tight fitting shirts because I was embarrassed that people could count my ribs.

20 years later I most certainly am overweight. Too much beer, too many years doing tech support and other cubicle jobs, too little exercise, and yeah, Techhell is fat. Dropping 20lbs would be a very good thing for me to do. 25-30lbs might be better. But to get to a "normal" range, I need to drop between 40 and 60 lbs! (40lbs if I have a "heavy" build, 60lbs if I have a "slight" build and 50lbs for a "medium" build.) It's bafflingly insane and I can't quite figure out how any medical professional can use this with a straight face.

As usual, Mitt Romney asks, "Who let the dogs out? Woof, Woof?

I can't W A I T for single-payer to finally arrive here in the states. And by arrive, I mean, anally rape me, dryly.

vestona22: Welcome to ObamaCare!

/Dumbass Obama-zombie responses below!

I think you mean Obombie.

The National Health Service was established after the emergence of a view that health care was a right,

Are the people working at the Mirror and the Sun just blowhard buttholes who like to rile people up with BS, or has the UK really gone batsh*t crazy?

TV's Vinnie: Are the people working at the Mirror and the Sun just blowhard buttholes who like to rile people up with BS, or has the UK really gone batsh*t crazy?

Yes and yes.

Bucky Katt: cman: This is what happens when you let extremists run your damn country. You get nothing but idiocy.

/Left in Britain is almost as bad as the Right in our country

David Cameron is a lefty?

Considering that he's about to attempt to legalize gay marriage in the UK, and believes that all people in his country should receive health care, and is against the death penalty, he's very leftist by American standards.

The funny thing to me is, I'll bet my left nut that at least one person in the chain of the delivery of that letter (from the examining clinician, teacher, typist, mail carrier, etc.) was ACTUALLY obese!

thalidomide new and improved: I can't W A I T for single-payer to finally arrive here in the states. And by arrive, I mean, anally rape me, dryly.

Yeah shiat you might get a stupid letter and stuff. Run for the hills!

In addition, England needs to STFU about us not using the goddamn metric system while they're still weighing things in stones and measuring time in fortnights.

/My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

TV's Vinnie: Are the people working at the Mirror and the Sun just blowhard buttholes who like to rile people up with BS, or has the UK really gone batsh*t crazy?

a little from column "A", a little from column "B".

You know, the next time I hear a Brit talking about how silly the U.S. is for still using the imperial system of measurement, I'm going to ask them to explain to me how exactly a 'stone' makes any more sense than a 'pound' as a measurement of weight.

Subby, you sound fat.

Psssst... This already goes on here. Nothing new. Just that here it comes straight from a tard doctors mouth.

You brits reading this need to get the government out of your lives. Everyday there is a 'nanny state' bullsh*t incident involving children. EVERY FU+KING DAY.

With a divorce rate at or near sixty percent, what amount of compassion does your government REALLY have towards children?