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Could being overweight benefit our health?
Medical News Today ^
| July 17, 2014
| Honor Whiteman
Posted on 07/17/2014 3:51:21 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Hyman Roth
The BMI is the biggest hoax. My Ideal weight based on my body type is 200 lbs. The BMI chart says I should weigh 185. If I dropped 15 lbs, I would look like a stick insect. My son is very muscular and is big in the torso and shoulders and arms. Bumping into him is like running into a brick wall. He's very solid and does triathlons.
According to those ridiculous charts, he's borderline obese and I daresay, he's more fit than just about anyone else I know.
I also read that most NFL pro football players would be considered obese by those charts.
Something's wrong with that picture.
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07/17/2014 6:29:08 AM PDT
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metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
The best way to measure this is getting into water and they are able to measure the water displacement. I still sink and I certainly weigh more than I did as a teen.
I guess I'm still OK then.
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07/17/2014 6:31:39 AM PDT
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metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
I have been getting body mass measured in a Bod Pod at our gym this past year.
.much easier and cheaper and about as reliable as water displacement method.
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07/17/2014 6:53:54 AM PDT
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goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
To: Innovative
This just tells me medical profession is still a bunch of yokels if they used BMI as their measure
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07/17/2014 6:55:25 AM PDT
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goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
To: Innovative
I’m trying to get back to my original weight...8 pounds, 6 ounces.
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07/17/2014 2:46:30 PM PDT
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TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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