The Diet Joke

A few months ago I wrote an article entitled What is BMI and How Do I Get Rid of It? Turns out I’m not the only one thinking that way. Scientists now say they may have something better to measure a person’s fat. Better than BMI? WTF?

The new measure is called BAI, or Body Adiposity Index. Adiposity means fat. Why they don’t call it BFI, or Body Fat Index, which everybody would understand, I don’t know, except that maybe it’s too close to BFF. LOL. Imagine if instead of saying best friends forever, you just called your best friend fat. BBBF. (Bye-bye best friend.)

BAI uses height and hip measurements rather than the traditional height and weight calculation of BMI. To learn more about the proposed scale you can read the Reuters article here. According to the article, the new scale has promise for faraway places where they have plenty of food, but not enough scales.

WATDJ (We at The Diet Joke) don’t think a new way to measure fat is going to make much difference. Here in America we have plenty of scales, plenty of food and plenty of ways to measure fat. We have plenty of fat people too.

Obesity is fast becoming a global epidemic with one in ten adults worldwide considered obese. It might make us feel better to know we’re not alone in our struggle, but it shouldn’t.