can you believe that
“The Rock” Johnson Is Technically Obese?
according to reports gotten from yahoo news
SOURCEWhen Furious 7 set box-office records on its opening weekend, there was one story lurking in the shadows of the celebrity-industrial complex that no one wanted to talk about: The star, Vin Diesel, is overweight.And costar Dwayne Johnson? Dude’s obese. Johnson has a body-mass index, or BMI, of 34.3. Which means, according to U.S. government standards, the Rock is obese. And Diesel, at 27.1, is overweight.*If Johnson and Diesel aren’t the first guys you think of when you ponder America’s obesity problem, you begin to understand the problem with using BMI, a ratio of weight to height, as a tool to judge an individual’s fitness or health risks. (If you have weight to lose, check out The Lose Your Spare Tire Program—it’s the easiest and most effective way to lose 20, 30, even 50 pounds and flatten your belly forever!)And yet, BMI appears in the news with disturbing regularity. The French National Assembly recently passed a ban on hiring models with a BMI below 18. (A model who’s 5-foot-8 would fall just below the cutoff at 118 pounds, but she’d be catwalk-legal at 119.)And in Belton, Missouri, a parent cried foul when her 7-year-old daughter came home from school with a note saying the child was overweight, based on her BMI.Every article you’ve read about the obesity epidemic relies on BMI to tell us who’s too fat, and who’s just right.BMI is indeed a terrible way to assess whether you’re lean or fat. But not for the reason you think. (For a simple way to gauge how close a man is to the ‘ideal’ body shape, use The Perfect Body Formula.)Belgian waffleWhat we now call body-mass index dates back to 1832, when a Belgian mathematician named Adolphe Quetelet observed that human weight “increases as a square of the height,” except during infancy and the adolescent growth spurt."
