Remember when Obumer changed the meaning of obese, to sell weight loss surgery? Or programs? They used 6’4” big boned men, weight lifters, truckers, measured their necks. Now a 6’6” man weighs 200-230 lbs, an little short thing like me at 5’ was then at 130 lbs we then became OBESE. They used medzines to push it, along with doctors, who now labeled you obese. These docs should take a good look in a mirror, most are OBESE, as are many in congress. So are these illegals crossing our open borders. They want to spend more money on them.
For my SIL who is 6’4” @ 400 lbs it changed his life, had slow weight loss surgery, 200 lbs in 2 yrs, lost a big box of drugs, heart, diabetes, and more. Trade off he can’t eat a lot any more, makes him very uncomfortable.
I didn’t know that about Obama changing the weight standards but it makes sense. They also keep changing the BP metrics which pisses me off no end. My parents had hypertension and so do I. I’m 68 and without meds it runs 145/80, but they want me around 120/70 “to be healthy.” Ppl aren’t dropping like flies with BP readings like mine, FFS! They’ll just keep moving the goalposts until we’re medicated up the wazoo! 🤬