Flight attendant ruled too fat to fly

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11-03-2008 @ 9:17PM

Hans said...

Craig, without doing a dunk tank(accurate) or a skin Fold test(much less accurate) on this man, how could you possibly get an exact BMI on him??? its impossible to do an accurate BMI with not enough information. height and weight are not enough of the equation to accurately come to anything close to a BMI. it did say he's around 60 lbs overweight, so remove that and he's at 170, (average BMI is around 16 to 25 %) so if we take a mean average of 20%, in this case he'd be carrying 34lbs of fat at 170 lbs PLUS another 60 lbs OVER that which puts him at 95lbs(WAY approx) of total fat on his body. simple math cal puts him at around 60% BMI of fat! he is SEVERLY overweight. and anyone at 230 lbs and ONLY 5'7" I would see as having a VERY hard time doing his respected duties. again with ONLY "abouts" and "approximates".

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