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[randoskier]

What’s BMI ?

Bowel Movement Incidence, a key figure for the spandex crowd.

[randoskier]

Interesting thought- these girlies who skied 1400 km on Baffin Island worked hard to put on 12kg (26 pounds) of fat prior to leaving for their tour. The cold will eat it. (when they say they will ski 140 miles, that is Scandi miles. 1 Scandi mile = 10km). I met one of them in a DNT cabin we shared in Troms, Norway in the summer time.

[FourthCoast]

What’s BMI ?

Bowel Movement Incidence, a key figure for the spandex crowd.

Oh. I thought we we talking about the Big Mac Index, measured in cheeseburgers per month.

[Lhartley]

This gives you your current and optimum BMI based on age and gender as well, so it might be more helpful:

https://www.smartbmicalculator.com/

Also, people who have lower fat/higher muscle makeup will register higher BMI, just based on weight.

Well this one really made my day, I'm almost healthy? Almost...

[randoskier]

What’s BMI ?

Bowel Movement Incidence, a key figure for the spandex crowd.

Oh. I thought we we talking about the Big Mac Index, measured in cheeseburgers per month.

The Economist magazone actually uses a Big Mac Index to measure comparative cost of living amongst countries.

" The big mac index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level. It is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalise the prices of an identical basket of goods and services (in this case, a burger) in any two countries.

Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible. Yet the Big Mac index has become a global standard, included in several economic textbooks and the subject of dozens of academic studies. For those who take their fast food more seriously, we also calculate a gourmet version of the index."