#Rapunzel #obese #hairweight #BMI #fairytales #weightlossjourney
Imagine if Rapunzel from the classic fairy tale, “Rapunzel,” were to step onto a scale at the doctor’s office for her BMI check. Would her long, flowing locks tip the scale and classify her as technically obese? 🤔 It may sound like a silly question, but it raises an interesting point about how we perceive weight and health.
## The Problem
Probably a very random question I know.
But if you go to the hospital and they check your bmi they weigh you and your hair.
So if rapunzel where to get her bmi checked would she be technically obese because of the weight of her hair?
I know I'm reading into this too far but I'm invested now.
## The Solution
### Understanding BMI
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a common tool used to determine if an individual is underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese based on their height and weight. While BMI is a helpful indicator of overall health, it does not account for factors like muscle mass, bone density, or hair weight. So, even if Rapunzel’s hair was factored into her weight, it wouldn’t necessarily mean she is obese.
### Healthy Hair Care
Instead of focusing on the weight of Rapunzel’s hair, let’s shift our focus to the importance of maintaining healthy hair. Just like our bodies, our hair requires proper care to stay strong and vibrant. Regular shampooing, conditioning, and trims can help prevent split ends and breakage, promoting healthy hair growth.
### Body Positivity
Whether Rapunzel’s hair adds extra weight to her BMI or not, what truly matters is how she feels about herself. Body positivity is about accepting and loving your body, no matter its size or shape. Just like Rapunzel embraced her iconic locks, you too can embrace your unique beauty and celebrate what makes you, you.
### Practical Tips
1. Embrace your uniqueness: Celebrate your individuality and what sets you apart from others.
2. Focus on overall health: Prioritize nutritious foods, regular exercise, and self-care practices.
3. Seek support: Surround yourself with positive influences who uplift and encourage you on your journey.
In conclusion, the question of whether Rapunzel is technically obese due to the weight of her hair may spark curiosity, but what truly matters is how we perceive ourselves and prioritize our overall health and well-being. Let’s shift our focus from arbitrary standards to embracing our individuality and striving for a healthy, balanced lifestyle. 🌟
How much does her hair weigh?
They only weigh your hair when it’s clear that it doesn’t add a significant amount of weight. If you clearly had pounds of hair, they wouldn’t include it
BMI unfairly classifies a lot of people as obese based on body type/muscle. Novel take but you must be right.
No.
They weigh her hair, zero out the scale, weigh  her entire body, subtract the weight of the hairÂ
I scrolled past this too fast at first and saw “is Rapunzel technically bees“. I am disappointed that I don’t get to read this theory now.
No, because height is factored into BMI. With her hair, she’s 60 feet tall and actually underweight.
No, I dont know exactly how much hair weighs, but as long as they just push her hair off the scale, then at most her hair would only be adding a few pounds.
Most of her hair is just sitting on the ground not affecting the scale.
BMI is an indicator, and a very coarse one at that. At any hospital, they would take your 60 ft of hair – or your unnaturally large testicles, as you suggested in another comment – into account before giving you an obesitas diagnosis.
If someone actually had that much hair the doctors would try to subtract it from the person’s total weight. Just like how someone missing both arms wouldn’t be considered underweight for medical purposes.
Her hair drags on the floor. It would be very easy to step on the scale and not pull all the excess hair with her.
She would have to step on the scale while holding her hair wound up in her arms for it to be significant.
Noone considers BMI absolute. It’s just a indicator or to gauge an estimate. If you’re muscular you might be at 12% bodyfat yet in the obese category due to height to weight ratio
To be fair, it would be difficult to weigh her at all. I mean, unless you expect her to hold all that hair in her arms. If it’s hanging down, most of it is going to be on the floor.
Unless you put the scale on top of a 30’ podium and make her climb up there.
Is the wind blowing?
When I was in basic training in the US Navy, we had a really skinny guy in the company. I am talking sunken chest and all, probably didn’t weight 120 pounds. Due to the way all the measurements work (weight, versus neck diameter, waist etc.) the calculations said he was obese. He had to go to special PT for the fat guys for like two weeks before they got it straightened out.
I remember some one-legged guy on social media talking about the hospital system flagging him as dangerously underweight, so yes, I think that same system would flag Rapunzel as overweight haha.
Maybe if you take all of her weight into account and don’t care about the point of BMI. Also BMI is a metric for looking at population level statistics and is not very informative on an individual level. So I guess if you don’t care about the point of the measurement in the first place, sure.
Rapunzel must also be quite muscular from taking her ‘mom’ up and down the tower all day on top of climbing within the tower daily. There are several scenes of her sitting on support beams or dangling from them. The combination of her hair and her muscle would probably make her quite obese.
If her hair was included in the weight, then yes, the BMI calculation as it works would find her morbidly obese.
This is part of why BMI is a poor index to evaluate healthy people. If you’re fat, that’s why your BMI says you’re obese. If you’re a body building holding a ton of muscle weight, the BMI will also say you’re obese.
It shouldn’t be the ONLY metric a doctor uses to evaluate your health, just one of the tools.
They just stick you on a scale to get weight. If Rapunzel has really heavy hair it could affect a BMI measure
If it’s so long that it’s falling on the floor then it’s not really getting weighed on a traditional scale along with rapunzels body and some of her hair.
Could she braid her hair into clothes?
There is a way to estimate the weight of the hair approximately with a bit of physics.
Weigh Rapunzel with the hair. Make sure she is holding the hait so it doesn’t dangle on the ground.
Then weigh her again but with someone holding her hair by the other end while keeping it off the ground.
The weight of the hair should be around twice the difference between the two measurements.
Bmi is a bullshit index that only works for average looking people. And anyone who takes it seriously shouldn’t be anywhere close to the word “technical”. Still, technical tests that measure obesity usually ignore the hair effect since it’s always negligible. The serious technical test for obesity would be to measure fat percentage, and rapunzel would be too skinny in that regard, since her hair raises her weight and thus lowers the fat percentage too much. But if you measure muscle mass percentage, she would be considered obese because she has too little muscle mass for her hair-in body weight.
I think she is obese in one relevant way though, she’s too heavy for her skeleton. She probably has knee issues. But all that depends on exactly how much does her hair weigh
Lol I read the title and my mind went elsewhere, thinking she would need to be obese in order to support a grown man climbing up her hair
Bmi is a terrible metric. Doesn’t account for muscle mass or bone density.
But technically if she is fully weighed with her hair BMI would put her in unhealthy ranges most likely