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sarah2079

They actually aren't adjusting for sex at all in their definition of obesity, it is just based on height and weight:

"BMI was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared, rounded to one decimal place. Obesity in adults was defined as a BMI of greater than or equal to 30."

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And that is already actually favoring woman in the comparison since for the same BMI woman on average have more body fat and less muscle weight than men: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/ind...

All in all the study is about how these BMI measured obesity levels are stabilizing for men but increasing for woman and there is no rational way to go around the conclusion... so I don't get why people are so against the conclusions of the study.

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