‎"You have a lower BMI than 90% of males aged 45-59 in your country" – No duh

B’ Spokes: May I assert the other 10% also have an active life style. To find your stats: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328
I found this site via: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/the-couch-potato-goes-global/?smid=fb-share
And to highlight a bit from that article:
The latest figures suggest that the world’s population has become disturbingly inactive. According to the researchers’ calculations, 31.1 percent of the world’s adults, or about 1.5 billion people, are almost completely sedentary, meaning that they do not meet the minimum recommendation of 150 minutes of walking or other moderate activity per week, or about 20 minutes a day.
Teenagers are faring even worse. More than 80 percent of young people ages 13 to 15 worldwide are not getting the hour a day of vigorous exercise recommended for their age group.
Unsurprisingly, North America and Europe lead the world in not exercising, with 43.3 percent of Americans and 34.8 percent of Europeans not reaching the low recommended threshold. But the world is catching up or, rather, joining us in sitting down. More than 30 percent of Russians are inactive nowadays; ditto in the Middle East; and about 27 percent of Africans are sedentary.
Read more: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/the-couch-potato-goes-global/?smid=fb-share

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