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Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by suprathreshold on Friday August 05, 2016 @10:40AM (#12232654)
In reading the paper, I appreciate the statistical efforts to adjust for age differences between the groups to make their claim, but at least optically it doesn't help that the average age of each cohort was already 10 years different. Lean group M = 48 yrs SD = 16; Overweight M = 57 years SD = 17; Obese M = 61 years SD = 16. The latter two groups were combined for analysis.

Is it still contentious to use the BMI to define these groups? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1062684...

Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by bargl on Friday August 05, 2016 @10:48AM (#12232715)
Doesn't BMI that uses electrical current to check for fat percentage in body negate the conetentiousness of BMI? I ask because I thought that was the case but now I'm not so sure.
Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by jaegerpicker on Friday August 05, 2016 @10:53AM (#12232752)
There is no BMI measurement that use's electrical current. That's a body fat index which is very different and much more precise. BMI is a very poor and ultimately very hard to justify formula that only takes into account weight/height sorted by gender. Things like muscle index and body frame are completely ignored and often lead to very poor BMI's for people who shouldn't have them.
Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by suprathreshold on Friday August 05, 2016 @10:57AM (#12232784)
Maybe bargl means Bioelectric Impedance Analysis? A cursory internet search also indicates BIA is suspect as a one-time measure.
Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by bargl on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:00AM (#12232806)
OK so I have this and I thought that the BMI it computed was based on tracking the fat to everything else based on BIA. But I may be way off here.

https://www.fitbit.com/aria

I see that Fitbit tracks this as BodyFat % not BMI. Not sure if that's accurate.

Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by raffy on Friday August 05, 2016 @05:55PM (#12235982)
BIA is pretty bad. Here are ~1300 Fitbit Aria measurements matched against 7 DXA scans. The Fitbit bodyfat data (teal) is just random noise and can barely detect considerable changes in body composition.

http://i.imgur.com/J4Ls2bQ.png

Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by noir_lord on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:41PM (#12233724)
I stopped paying attention to be BMI, I'm 6ft, 190lbs and have a 32" waist and it has me right on the edge of been overweight.

I think given that many people don't realise how inaccurate it is I might even class it as harmful.

Re:Brains of overweight people look ten years older than tho... by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:49PM (#12238762)
You are on the edge of overweight, and you don't realize it because of all the fat people around you.