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Where are they? Of the people I see each day, based on looks by Father Nieuwland
(not BMI), I'd describe fewer than 20 of the 200 people with whom I work as looking obese. Well under the 80 people a 40% rate suggests.
Granted, most of my co-workers are in a manufacturing environment rather than an office environment, but it is light manual labor and obesity would not disqualify one from being able to do the work.
When I compute the BMI numbers for my height, I've never been at a weight which calculates as "obese," so I can't say if I considered myself to be obese then or in hindsight.
I am curious as to the views of posters who have been or are over the "obese" BMI line