I can’t find it from a very quick search, but I am pretty sure I saw a graph that indicated a 25 BMI was actually the sweet spot for lowest incidence of severe COVID symptoms.
This is awesome advertising because they already give you a free donut just for walking in to the store. so it doesn’t sound like they are actually doing anything different.
i wouldn’t be surprised. makes it even more ridiculous that these people are prioritized.
I have a scale that does this, too, although the only user input is me standing on the machine whilst barefoot.
It gives wildly different results every single time.
Do you find that yours is pretty consistent (especially given that you’ve provided other info)?
I could easily eat a half dozen in one sitting…and do it again the next day.
…all while washing it all down with a MtDew.
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Are they trying to kill off their membership?
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Frailty in older adults may be a greater risk than obesity
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That’s certainly one of my mother’s risk factors. She weighs nothing. She has no subcutaneous fat. Her doctor is worried about her weight, as in, he’s worried that she doesn’t weigh enough and her weight is slightly lower each time she sees him.
this virus is somewhat random. i know someone whose elderly aunt who weighs like 80 pounds got covid and got through it like a champ. i think it was a pretty minor case. probably low viral load or whatever.
Here’s an example of the daily variability you get with these smart scales (I have the Nokia Withings Body+). Length between the grey bars is 11 pounds - so you’re looking at about a +/- 2 pound variance.
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Getting my first shot on Monday!
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Oh, i didn’t mean a risk factor for covid, just a risk factor for lots of other bad things, like broken bones, falling, sickness, and death.
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Me too, was really just promoting the good of donuts for the elderly
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Yeah but this is against the law, right?
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We have the same scale. I don’t get variability in my weight, when I’m weighing myself regularly, but I definitely do with my fat%.
in a google search, found this article. it flat out says that scales to measure body fat percentage suck. they suck even for trends, and that your body fat percentage can go down, but the scale will show it going up. seems to indicate, should ditch that method to chart any sort of progress entirely.
also according to this article, the only real accurate method of measuring body fat percentage is to take all the fat out of a dead body and weigh it.
How Accurate Are Body Fat Scales? What 7 Studies Say (muscleevo.net)
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I find that 95% of the time I get a body fat percentage that is within 0.2% of the previous body fat percentage (Like if my last body fat percentage was 30% the next will be [29.8% - 30.2%]) and directionally reasonable based on how much I’ve been eating / exercising.
5% of the time I get something ludicrous. I step off the scale, wait 2 minutes, and try again and it’s usually reasonable again. If I step back on the scale too soon I get the exact same number as before.
My sister and BIL are volunteering at a mass vaccination site this weekend, in hopes that they’ll be entitled to unused doses at the end of the day.
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Seems like there are parts of the country that will struggle to get 20-30% vaccinated. This fall could be a really weird time for the US.
Over 100 members of the us House of Congress who haven’t been vaccinated, despite it being available to them for 3 months!