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Click here to calculate your expected longevity.
Better mark it one day early. You may go in your sleep in the early hours of the morning.wildcat said:Thanks TboneAl. I marked it on the calendar
KB said:I came up with 97. I've never planned on lasting that long.
Nords said:Jay's right-- just this side of financial pornography. I don't think I'm at a significant risk for my family's history of breast cancer.
Better mark it one day early. You may go in your sleep in the early hours of the morning.
Nords said:Results
If you continue maintaining healthy habits, you'll want to plan for a maximum life expectancy of 93 years or more.
Your "ideal" weight for maximum longevity is: 167 lbs.
Peter76 said:My "ideal" weight is allegedly 162 lbs, although my current age projection is a ripe old 90 (which I think is easily doable, considering the genes in my family and my awareness of healthy living).
I tip the scales at 185, and for someone who's 5'7", I always register as "overweight" in these stupid surveys.
LOL....well, considering I have a 43 chest and 32 waist, and my only body fat on my entire body is strategically located in my gut, I suppose they want me to drop 23 lbs to a size 26 waist![]()
I know, they don't factor in waist/body builds, but I just always get a little peeved when they think I'm overweight when I'm not.
((^+^)) SG said:BMI is not a good indicator of fitness for a lot of people. It is widely used only because it is so easy to evaluate -- Plug in height. Plug in weight. Out comes BMI. But there is a lot more to fitness than height and weight. BMI is a poor metric for people with low body fat, for people with relatively short legs, etc. There has been a lot of recent literature on this subject. Here's a couple of interesting pieces:
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/oped_detail.cfm?oped=160
"Tom Cruise: Hottie or Fatty?
By: Dan Mindus
Newspaper: Orange County Register
If Tom Cruise had been accidentally decapitated in the making of the Last Samurai, he would have become one more victim of our "obesity epidemic." Sound strange? Welcome to the politics of fat, where bathroom scales can be tax-deductible, lawyers are lining up to sue anything rumored to contain calories, and the press has fed us a steady diet of hysteria and hyperbole.
The first thing you need to understand is that in our twilight zone of fat hysteria, he is officially obese. That's based on the Body Mass Index (BMI), a measurement that separates us into government-approved, overweight, and obese categories by taking into consideration only our height and weight. A BMI of 30 or more makes you obese, and at 5-7, 201 pounds, Tom Cruise has a BMI of 31.
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Fatty Cruise is in good company. Thanks to the absurdities of the BMI yardstick, Sylvester Stallone (5-9, 228 pounds, BMI of 34) and Mel Gibson (5-9, 214 pounds, BMI of 32) are also "obese." So was Mark McGwire (6-5, 250 pounds, BMI of 30) the year he hit 70 home runs. And if politics is your thing, you'll be interested to know that the new governor of California (6-2, 257 pounds, BMI of 33) is obese, too.
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http://www.mkeonline.com/story.asp?id=323240
"Weighty facts about your BMI
Body Mass Index is a general indicator of fitness - but it's not always accurate
By David Jakubiak
Posted: May 5, 2005
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Which direction?MRGALT2U said:89, and I hope they're wrong.
JG
MRGALT2U said:89, and I hope they're wrong.
JG
REWahoo! said:Which direction?![]()
Wow, and I bet he could do it even faster in his drag racer!bruce1 said:Chris Karamesines is still competetive driving top fuel dragsters at 75. He ran the quarter in 4.954 secs and 288.77 MPH.
You're killin' me, Al. You've just described 95% of the lineup at White Plains Beach, and most of them are between 20-50 years old. Me included. We can't all go to Pipeline & Waimea.TromboneAl said:But then I saw a video called "Surfing for Life" about some surfing legends who are still surfing in the 80s, etc. An 85 year old catches a really small, easy wave on a really big board, shakily stands up and rides it in. Does this for a few times, and then he's done for the day.
So, yeah, technically he was surfing at age 85. But it wasn't what I pictured.