Anyone Had A Go At The BBC World BMI Ranker?

[AB Editor]

Quite good fun:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328

Apparently I'm like someone from China?

Also, 24bmi, Below average (lower BMI than 63% of males in my age range in the UK) but above average compared to males in my age range: I have 64% higher bmi than them.

Also, If everyone in the world had the same BMI as me, it would remove 268,831 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population.

How did you do?

[bednobs]

christ i daren't report my answers!

[Mamyalynne]

At 20bmi

You have a lower BMI than 94% of females aged 45-59 in your country

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 40,942,466 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

I am like a Sri Lankan

[Tilly2]

BMI 24 Lower than average on both counts.

Like someone from Laos.
I like that. Thanks Ed.

[Nibble]

I'm happy 'cos I'm......



According to my BMI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4

[lcg]

oh dear...

[jno]

it says if everyone weighed as much as me the planet would fall out of its orbit and spiral into the sun :-(

Gotta stop eating that second box of Milk Tray in the evenings.

[Kiki-frog]

Brazilian! (That's what my BMI's like, not any personal topiary before anyone makes any clever comments.) Goody, I love carnivals

[AB Editor]

I have no idea how they work out your "like a...[insert nationality]" - but I assume it is the same system they use for twinning towns.

[Ellipsis]

Obesity Index: 27 bmi

National: Below average
I have a lower BMI than 60% of males in my age group in the UK [I find this quite scary actually, as I think I'm a bloater and my BMI agrees]

Global: Above average
I have a higher BMI than 71% of males in my age group in the world

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as me, it would add 43,514,626 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population

I'm most like someone from Italy. Mamma mia!

[jno]

I imagine they work out the average weight of a person from each nation (don't know how, must require lots of scales) and find the ones nearest your weight.

Imagine me, fatter than a Qatari.

[Mamyalynne]

Using UN data on population size in 177 countries, together with estimates of global weight from the WHO and mean height from national health examination surveys the team were able to calculate average BMI figures for each country.

[Nibble]

Just checked for boxy....... We're off to Kuwait :)

[tenrec]

Nepal for me, whoopeee!

[tenrec]

Only Bangladesh and Ethiopia seem to be lower than me! I'm worried now!

[Robinia]

I'm with the Nepalese too :o/

[marval]

Malaysia for me

[albaqwerty]

Norway for me, supposedly.

[Francis Asis]

Apparantly I'm one of the fattest people in the world and have to move to Samoa straight away.

[emmie]

belize, cor

[ubasses]

Come out at BMI 18, 98% lower than females in this country & 89% in the world. On par with Bangladesh. My BMI would save 66,861,351 tonnes in the world.