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To: Red Badger

It kept me off the fat boy program in the military.


23 posted on 09/17/2020 9:25:38 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: AlaskaErik

I was in the Marines back when they first started using BMI as a measure to determine if you were ‘obese’.

We had a guy in our company that was a body builder. He was a short person, probably 5’ 3 “ or so.

He was in no ways ‘fat’ or ‘obese’, but his BMI said he was.

They made him go to what we called ‘Fat Body Platoon’ three times a week, afternoons.

He loved it.

He got to exercise and jog and lift weights and it got him out of ‘work’!....................


26 posted on 09/17/2020 9:32:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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