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Bit of a discrepancy between what we see is healthy and what we are told, yes? I am generally for exercise and fitness but not so much for weight loss as a goal itself. Plenty thin, I am, but not very fit, and I think that fitness is rather more important for health than to be fitted to some scale of predefined appropriateness in size.
Bit of a discrepancy between what we see is healthy and what we are told, yes? I am generally for exercise and fitness but not so much for weight loss as a goal itself. Plenty thin, I am, but not very fit, and I think that fitness is rather more important for health than to be fitted to some scale of predefined appropriateness in size.
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Date: 2008-07-21 06:01 (UTC)From:Have you noticed how all the biometrics are constantly sliding down? I have an appointment for a checkup on Friday; I can hardly wait. I'm 5'9", 194 lbs. I'll get crap about being overweight. I've always been big; not "fat", "big". Johnny Bench "big". Thurman Munson "big". I'd probably have made a decent catcher, come to think of it. I've been hearing it for years about my cholesterol count. Screw that. I'm a Hunkie; that's not blood in my veins, that's sour cream. I'm not dead yet. It's my sister, horse trainer, "normal" weight, healthy diet, good Christian, who dropped dead of an aneurysm. Go figure. The numbers are screwed; by 2010, they'll have been set such that everyone will have some bad parameter.