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post #91 of 105
1/11/10 at 1:21pm
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You've made a lot of stupid posts. This is one of the worst.

Pray tell, why is it stupid?
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post #92 of 105
1/11/10 at 2:16pm
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Pray tell, why is it stupid?
The 10% body fat comment was pretty stupid, but I do agree that people who don't think of themselves as overweight in fact actually are. I constantly get called skinny and emaciated by my friends even though I'm right in the middle of the recommended BMI. I'm not skinny. My friends are just fat and don't realize it.
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post #93 of 105
1/11/10 at 2:32pm
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The 10% body fat comment was pretty stupid, but I do agree that people who don't think of themselves as overweight in fact actually are.

I constantly get called skinny and emaciated by my friends even though I'm right in the middle of the recommended BMI. I'm not skinny. My friends are just fat and don't realize it.

Considering the overweight issue (especially in America) and that the average man being over 10% BF is a recent phenomenon, my comment was not stupid.
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post #94 of 105
1/11/10 at 4:25pm
Maybe you are right. After quickly poking around for examples, 10% body fat actually doesn't look that thin. At 10%, only a slight outline of your abs should be visible---not entirely unrealistic.
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post #95 of 105
1/11/10 at 5:08pm
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Considering the overweight issue (especially in America) and that the average man being over 10% BF is a recent phenomenon, my comment was not stupid.

I'm not sure that's actually true.
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post #96 of 105
1/11/10 at 6:07pm
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Originally Posted by Gradstudent78 View Post
I'm not sure that's actually true.
Yes it is, a friend of mine who was a Anthropology and Archaeology major mentioned it to me. Also, consider that the average male's (especially in the first world) diet has drastically changed over the last 100 years.
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post #97 of 105
1/11/10 at 7:25pm
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Yes it is, a friend of mine who was a Anthropology and Archaeology major mentioned it to me.
That doesn't really make it true

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Also, consider that the average male's (especially in the first world) diet has drastically changed over the last 100 years.

That is true. The thing is that, there really isn't a simple answer.
It's going to depend on time period your talking about and the specific population. If you look at nonwestern populations today and try to get an average it comes out to 13%, with some populations being higher and some being lower (particularly asian and african populations). Looking into the past is complicated by the fact that the further back we go, the less data we have, usually just weights and heights, with skeletal evidence providing relatively little evidence for body compositions. If you look at specific hunter and gatherer populations today, many have higher average body fats then 10%, so then one has to ask what is an appropriate model?

Of course there is the completely different question of, if a population in the past had a 10% body fat is that necessarily something we want to emulate and does it lead to the greatest level of health? Does being 12% change anything in terms of morbidity or mortality rates?
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post #98 of 105
1/12/10 at 2:05am
I'm 6'1"
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post #99 of 105
1/13/10 at 1:24am
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I'm not sure that's actually true.

It's absolutely true that the average male is above 10% bodyfat.
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post #100 of 105
1/13/10 at 1:29am
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Originally Posted by ZackyBoy View Post
It's absolutely true that the average male is above 10% bodyfat.

I know that's true, at least in the US and probably the westernized world as a whole.
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post #101 of 105
1/13/10 at 7:30pm
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Pompeii was not built very high: most of the houses are one or two floors, all of them pretty small. And yet from the way Pompeii is built you can tell people were shorter then, by like about a foot (0.3 m). Even the beds are shorter.

Damn, people in the year 4000 are gonna be tall...

Curious that, given that for most of its history the minimum height for joining the Roman army was 5'10", as I recall.
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post #102 of 105
1/13/10 at 8:16pm
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Originally Posted by ramuman View Post
I'm 6'0, how long before I'm too short?


Longer then when I become a midget at 5'6"
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post #103 of 105
1/13/10 at 8:23pm
I'm really 6' 1" but tell people I'm 6' even for convenience' sake.
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post #104 of 105
1/14/10 at 2:51am
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Curious that, given that for most of its history the minimum height for joining the Roman army was 5'10", as I recall.

Considering the ancient Roman populace as a whole was much shorter than that, I find it hard to believe this standard applied to the entire army.
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post #105 of 105
1/22/10 at 9:34pm
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Originally Posted by Jumbie View Post
Rape?

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I'm 6'2" which is my maternal grandfather's exact height (my father is around 5'9" or 5'10"). I've always been thankful that I am on the taller side. I think that 6'1"-6'3" is about the ideal height. Tall but not too tall.

I'd lean towards 6'0", because at 6'3" you'd miss out on a lot of pretty good looking girls to date that are in the 5'2"-5'6" range (IMO any more than a 8 inch difference is quite awkward looking between couples)
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