[sedachv]

Look at photographs of people 60, 80, 100 years ago. The relative perception of obesity in the US is extremely distorted. The average male is 5 feet 9 inches (176cm) and 195 pounds (88 kilograms). That is overweight. The adults in the photo are also overweight.

[jules]

I'm not from the US, and neither are the people we're talking about. These people look like they weigh less than 88 kilograms, which I agree would be obese for 176cm.

Are you obese (by your own standards)?

[sedachv]

Can you at least bother to look up the definition of the key words before arguing?

Obese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity

Overweight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight

[jules]

Oh I wasn't aware that there were testable definitions. Then I consider it unlikely that the adults in the German family are either obese or overweight. On what are you basing your claim that their BMI is greater than 25 kgm^-2?

[eru]

Also BMI is getting phased out in favour of ratio between circumferences of hips and belly. It has much better correlation with lots of diseases than BMI.