[grosum]

Guess off season is healthier then?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/health/07fat.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1194438040-WQ8KzBIizxq%20luYBavokrw&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

[Uncle Arctic]

Thanks grosum.  Of course the judge for a person's weight needs to be completely overhauled anyway.  (Little known fact, did you know it was the Dept of Agriculture who came up with the "ideal" body comp stats of humans as well as the food pyramid in the sixties based on a livestock wellness plan????)  I mean I am 300 pounds (naturally, I don't think I want ruin my joints with 'roids) average out at about 10 percent body fat throughout the year and yet by medical minds I am considered to be "morbidly obese"

To paraphrase a fave movie character of mine, "this system needs an enema!"

[cpbell0033944]

Might I, as a postgrad medical researcher (albeit not in this exact field) add to this?

Firstly, BMI is only a good indicator of obesity in non-athletic people, as muscle mass skews the results.  For example, many larger FBBs would rate as obese on the BMI.  Secondly, the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research have recently published a 10-year report which is based on a thorough, peer-agred systematic review of the interplay between dit and cancer which shows that cancer risk increases even at the uppr end of the 'healthy' BMI range.  I would doubt that any protection afforded by being overweight can be shown simplisticly and conclusively shown to outweigh the stroke, heart disease and cancer risk of poor diet and obesity.  See http://www.dietandcancerreport.org/ for the full details.

[NecrochildK]

It kind of reminds me of my mom's reaction when I told her I wanted to get into bodybuilding. "Why you want to do that?! You know if you're too heavy, your heart will give out! Look at all those big, husky football players that die of heart attacks!" Well gee… bodybuilder… football player… from what I've seen at least what little I've seen on tv, many football players have a high amount of fat on top of muscle. Not saying that fat is always unhealthy, but… You get the idea.

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