Comments on: Wii Fit bad for body image? BMI strikes again

By: Chinese Olympic competitors and their age? « City of Skeptics

Chinese Olympic competitors and their age? « City of Skeptics — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:59:13 +0000

[...] Now BMI can’t really be used for kids and the Nintendi Wii Fit has caused a few issues, for example here, because it uses BMI as a measure of [...]

By: CedBlog

CedBlog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:35:52 +0000

The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore, Maryland, believes that BMI is not a true reflection of an individual’s health and are concerned that the BMI aspect of the Wii Fit program could have a negative impact on peoples’ perception - both young and old - of their body image. To learn more about BMI and our thoughts on the topic, visit our CED Blog by Googling ‘The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt, Blog’ and check out the entry entitled ‘Don’t You Judge Mii, Wii.’ http://eatingdisorder.org/blog/2008/06/24/don%e2%80%99t-you-judge-mii-wii/

By: CedBlog

CedBlog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:40:08 +0000

By: curvy angela

curvy angela — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:28:11 +0000

@MayDarling

Way to do research! While I think that BMI is completely bogus, I did read that calculating BMI for children is very inaccurate, given the way children experience growth spurts, etc.

So, I was prepared to accept that explanation for the BMI debacle. But your research proves that info irrelevant.

Thanks for doing that leg work!

By: MayDarling

MayDarling — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:51:16 +0000

For the record on this, I went to NIH website and computed that little girl’s BMI.

You know what the results were?

18.2

You know what that means according to the NIH?

It means that that little girl is not fat, obese, overweight or even of average weight.

Under the classification by the National Institutes of Healh, that child so wrongly stigmatized by Wii Fit is actually, dare I say it?

UNDERWEIGHT

So I guess Nintendo needs to recalibrate their BMI calculator.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:13:31 +0000

http://www.bbspot.com/comics/PC-Weenies/2008/02/3248.php

Zcam is going to make the wii obsolete anyway. It is sad though that the one video game system that is actually encouraging people to get up and move around would have a bug like this.

Oh and love, you might want to edit your google adds.

By: Yesenia

Yesenia — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:31:15 +0000

I hope this girl’s mother and family helps her accept the experience as a technical error. How sad that now this child will have this dent on her self image. Having an athletic body and it’s abilities and strength are much more valuable than any BMI rating.