Measuring obesity with BAI
I'm not real super interested in obesity or calculations of people's weights, fat levels etc. but I ran across something half interesting that might be of interest to you. It is a new way to measure obesity or if a person is underweight, normal weight, or overweight -- and it doesn't even use your weight in the calculation! Murray has blogged about it at New measure of obesity – body adiposity index (BAI) He also made a calculator for it that compares your "results" as far as BMI and this new index, BAI. This new index uses your height and a measurement around the hips, and it's still somewhat experimental in the fact that it hasn't been thorougly tested in all races. The formula is hip (cm) ------------- − 18 [height(m)] 1.5 The resulting number should be a close estimate to your body fat percentage. Just for the record, or if you are curious, I am of normal weight, and supposedly have about 29% body fat according to that calcu...