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To: Homer1

Body mass index of over 30, probably. Which includes most in-shape football players and boxers, so the number is probably misleading. But there's no doubt there are a lot more heavy people out there even than there were when I was a teenager in the 90s.


25 posted on 08/23/2005 6:10:31 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: mysterio; Homer1
The BMI might be correct. I do know they adjusted the weight thing a few years ago and threw a whole bunch of "okay" people into the "obese" column. If I were to actually weigh what the chart says then I would be a skeleton. But my doctor told me at my last physical that he doesn't consider me over weight. And I'm at the same weight I was before they downsized the chart.

There is definitely a problem out there though. I have never seen so many FAT and I mean FAT kids at the public pools as I have seen in the past 3 years. It makes me lose my appetite when we go. But as a mom, it is a good reminder what NOT to buy and keep in the house for my kids.

39 posted on 08/23/2005 6:56:43 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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