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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 61401750" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>Yeah, but if you check the figures I provided, not that many people are actually obese. They're setting the bar so low at a 30 BMI for obese and 25 BMI for overweight that it's easy to boost the percentages and create a scare.</p><p> </p><p>If you take a person who's 5 foot 10 inches and 175 pounds, they would be counted in the 'overweight' category. As I mentioned before at 6 foot 2, 190 pounds, I'm in that category.</p><p> </p><p>Is a person who's 6 foot and 220 pounds really a huge burden on the healthcare system?</p><p> </p><p>Most of the "facts" about weight that are fed to us (no pun intended) are myths.</p><p> </p><p>According to an article published by encyclopedia britannica (provided by Case Western school of medicine)...</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://fycs.ifas.ufl.edu/newsletters/rnycu06/2006/10/body-mass-index-and-mortality-does.html" target="_blank">Studies do show </a>that the relative risk of death among obese people with a <a href="http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/bmi_tbl.htm" target="_blank">Body Mass Index </a>(BMI) at the highest end of the scale (BMI 40) is significantly higher than normal weight people, however studies show that the relative risk of death among overweight people with a BMI of 25-30 is the same as in normal weight people.</p><p> </p><p>The "obesity epidemic" stats they're feeding us are based on the 30 BMI as the standard of obese.</p><p> </p><p>So yes, while there are 36% of Americans with a BMI of between 25-30 (which as I established above doesn't create any greater health risks), the percentage of American's in the actual risk range of BMI 40+ is only 2.1% according to the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.</p><p> </p><p>And even in the BMI 40 category, there are still people who aren't obese</p><p><img src="http://www.pwpix.net/superstars/b/batista/images/dave-batista-3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>...hardly an "epidemic" worth creating expensive legislation over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 61401750, member: 123415"] Yeah, but if you check the figures I provided, not that many people are actually obese. They're setting the bar so low at a 30 BMI for obese and 25 BMI for overweight that it's easy to boost the percentages and create a scare. If you take a person who's 5 foot 10 inches and 175 pounds, they would be counted in the 'overweight' category. As I mentioned before at 6 foot 2, 190 pounds, I'm in that category. Is a person who's 6 foot and 220 pounds really a huge burden on the healthcare system? Most of the "facts" about weight that are fed to us (no pun intended) are myths. According to an article published by encyclopedia britannica (provided by Case Western school of medicine)... [URL="http://fycs.ifas.ufl.edu/newsletters/rnycu06/2006/10/body-mass-index-and-mortality-does.html"]Studies do show [/URL]that the relative risk of death among obese people with a [URL="http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/bmi_tbl.htm"]Body Mass Index [/URL](BMI) at the highest end of the scale (BMI 40) is significantly higher than normal weight people, however studies show that the relative risk of death among overweight people with a BMI of 25-30 is the same as in normal weight people. The "obesity epidemic" stats they're feeding us are based on the 30 BMI as the standard of obese. So yes, while there are 36% of Americans with a BMI of between 25-30 (which as I established above doesn't create any greater health risks), the percentage of American's in the actual risk range of BMI 40+ is only 2.1% according to the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. And even in the BMI 40 category, there are still people who aren't obese [IMG]http://www.pwpix.net/superstars/b/batista/images/dave-batista-3.jpg[/IMG] ...hardly an "epidemic" worth creating expensive legislation over. [/QUOTE]
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