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Nearly Half of America’s Overweight People Don’t Realize They’re Overweight
Washington Post ^ | 12/1

Posted on 12/05/2016 7:59:49 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 12/05/2016 7:59:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Seeing as how the BMI is baseless bull and actually requires unhealthy low weight levels, most of this crap about obesity is right up there in accuracy and honesty with Hillary Wins!


2 posted on 12/05/2016 8:02:00 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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As long as I can still see my feet ... I’ll continue to eat, eat, eat...


3 posted on 12/05/2016 8:02:02 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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"Nearly Half of America’s Overweight People
Don’t Realize They’re Overweight...."

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4 posted on 12/05/2016 8:17:43 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: nickcarraway

The poorest people now tend to be the most obese. 100 years ago that would be the stuff of science fiction.

Freegards


5 posted on 12/05/2016 8:23:19 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: nickcarraway
Maybe they just don't want to talk about it.
6 posted on 12/05/2016 8:24:20 PM PST by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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Tonight on Smartline: I'm Okay, You're Too Fat.
7 posted on 12/05/2016 8:32:56 PM PST by Trillian
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To: nickcarraway

57% of Black females in the USA are obese.


8 posted on 12/05/2016 8:33:49 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

So, less than the population in general?


9 posted on 12/05/2016 8:38:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Grimmy

Yep. When liberals went on the BMI kick, we all suddenly were fat and obese. I don’t pay any attention to numbers. I don’t care. Heck they said President Bush was obese.....get real liberals.


10 posted on 12/05/2016 8:50:20 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m in shape. Round is a shape...


11 posted on 12/05/2016 8:51:03 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: smokingfrog

I’m having too many intimate dinners for two.... with just me showing up.


12 posted on 12/05/2016 8:51:23 PM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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"Hi there. Are you a large person? Pleasantly plump? A little on the hefty side, perhaps? Well, let's face it: Are you FAT? When you go jogging, do you leave pot-holes? When you make love, do you have to give directions? At the zoo, do the elephants throw YOU peanuts? Do you look at a menu and say 'OK'? Well, now, you can eat all you want, because at Thornton Melon's "Tall & Fat" stores, we've got you covered. That's right. Fine woolen, and woolen-blend suits and sport coats, in all the larger sizes - husky, stout, extra-stout, and the new Hindenburg line. And for you ladies we have caftans, muumuus, and our own exclusive A-frame in all colors and patterns. Yes, we have miles and miles of fabric. So take it from me, Thornton Melon, if you want to look thin, you hang out with fat people."
13 posted on 12/05/2016 8:57:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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And just prior to the “All Americans Are Fat” crap there was the “All Americans Are Health Obsessed” crap. And before that there was...

Just like before the “OH MY GAWD! We’re all gonna die from planet hotting!” there was the “OH MY GAWD! We’re all gonna die in a sudden Ice Age!”.

Idiots gotta idiot.


14 posted on 12/05/2016 9:12:13 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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According to a BMI calculator, I’d have to weight 140 lbs to be in the middle of “normal”. I slink into “overweight at 162 lbs.

I’ve weighed 140 lbs before - thin as a rail. Toothpick arms and no chest muscle. In fairness, I’d be in excellent shape at 155 lbs...but it would take liposuction to get me there. It would take illness to get me to 140 lbs.


15 posted on 12/05/2016 9:14:47 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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In reality, the male BMI mortality curve has a sweet spot of about 27.5 (which is classified as "overweight"), with "normal weight" of 25 having about the same mortality rate as "obese" 30.

With women, there's almost no correlation between BMI and mortality, except at the very extremes (extremely overweight or extremely underweight).

It's possible that your optimal weight actually is 155, that 162 is only slightly worse, and that 140 isn't any more healthy than 170.
16 posted on 12/05/2016 9:28:25 PM PST by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
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Lord Paddington: Fatty, lift up your chin. No no no, both of them!


17 posted on 12/05/2016 10:06:06 PM PST by windcliff
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To: nickcarraway

A bit of input from the girls-should-look-like-boys crowd.


18 posted on 12/05/2016 10:24:53 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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The BMI system is complete garbage junk science based on a fatally flawed assumption.

It was put in place to create an overnight industry so that medical folks could get 11-12 million new patients instantly by reclassifying what “overweight” was.


19 posted on 12/05/2016 11:34:26 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Seeing as how the BMI is baseless bull...
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But we don’t need numbers to tell us what we see - Americans are disturbingly overweight, they huff and puff just walking from point A to point B, and they are creating their own misery of health problems and lost enjoyment because they want to eat more calories than they expend.

So adults want to make the case it is their life they can die the way they want. Fine. But I think it is child abuse to let children become obese - a burden they will likely never be able to overcome because the adults in their lives wanted to do things the easy way.


20 posted on 12/06/2016 1:48:56 AM PST by greatvikingone
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