CDC: 61% of Teenagers Hospitalized for COVID-19 Had Severe Obesity: A new study of 915 childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations found that most involved underlying conditions

Reason ^ | 01/04/2022 | Robby Soave

[entropy12]

Does it matter if the article is about vaccines or not?
Anti-vaxxers see vaccines in their shadow.

[entropy12]

I love eating in good Restaurants and those 38 cruises have not been easy on body weight. But I do this exercise everyday for 20 minutes followed by weight machine with 30 lb weights.

That is not only helping me keep the weight under control, but my energy levels are great, no balance issues at all, and have gained upper body muscles. Will soon burn 82 candles. Nothing beats daily exercise, not food, not prescriptions, not nutritional supplements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I55ZxIwbuOU

[Doctor Congo]

I would like to know what the other factors were. 40 percent of the dead were from co-morbidities other than obesity.

[FamiliarFace]

I do agree that daily exercise is worth its weight in gold. It’s not just eating and how much. Our daily exercise helps us too, even when we do indulge in “fine” dining.

[Mr Rogers]

"a study of residence at a retirement home that looked at their bmi vs how long they lived"

IIRC, carrying a bit of fat is associated with greater lifespan. So is a total cholesterol above 200. We see lots of advice based on "heart attacks" for example, but there are a lot of ways to die. All cause mortality curves are usually U shaped, and the sweet spot rarely lines up with an individual cause. For example, as cholesterol goes down, cancer starts to increase. Blood pressure goes down in older folks and mortality from falls goes up.

I'm pretty sure neither very lean nor very fat makes for good health.

"We have seen him go from a trim athletic build, to very round."

Weight lifting is a positive, but weight lifting as a substitute for everything else is not. I've known some enormously strong guys who were also very fat...and with significant heart problems in their 40s.

Jack Dempsey in his prime:

Wouldn't qualify for an action star in Hollywood but I'd have hated facing him in a ring! My only hope would be to outrun him...;>)

[AndyTheBear]

Whatever the healthiest part of the u shaped weight curve is, the bmi category of a healthy weight should center on it rather than mislabel it as overweight. Better yet a system which is adaptive to basic build should be developed to give us better stats. As it stands the go to measure seems both reckless in individual accuracy as well as not even being accurate on average.

[FamiliarFace]

Interestingly, my daughter’s boyfriend is in to mixed martial arts. If only he looked like Dempsey, I wouldn’t worry. That’s what he used to look like (my guess would be) 35-40 pounds ago. CoVid hasn’t been kind to him, and I am concerned about his weight gain. I think my daughter is, too, and she asks me about my weight loss from time to time. I think she wants to encourage her boyfriend, but I think he’s being stubborn. Nobody likes to be told what to do. He will have to decide for himself.

[Mr Rogers]

Another example of where BMI is silly. This is me:

“Height: 5 feet, 7.5 inches

Weight: 155 pounds

Your BMI is 23.9, indicating your weight is in the Healthy category for adults of your height.

For your height, a healthy weight range would be from 120 to 161 pounds.”

In reality, I’d be a lean fighting machine at 145. At 120, I’d be dangerously underweight. And gaining 7 lbs would still leave me able to run 4 miles a day in my 60s and far from obese.

But then, BMI doesn’t account for male/female! I’ll grant a lot of 5’8” women who weigh 165 would be too fat...but the flip side is almost no male my height should weigh 120!

The fact that BMI doesn’t distinguish between male and female is proof it is at best a statistical tool for population studies. At best. And you are right. It could easily be adjusted to make it more realistic.