Variable BMIs?
"Should" is a lot different from reality!
Your BMI should never have varied all your adult life.
"Should" is a lot different from reality!
Your BMI should never have varied all your adult life.
Your BMI should never have varied all your adult life.
No offense Zipper, but BMI is a joke. It's thrown around as a one-size-fits-all indicator. Phooey.
Dammit, John Galt, I have to admit I was playing the odds. I figured you probably had "metabolic syndrome" like 50 million other Americans.My last work-up showed pretty high HDL and pretty low triglicerides.
Try this one on bow-tie. I heard this almost 40 years ago in a Phys. Ed. course at University. Every inch your waist is over 32", you are 5 lbs. overweight, regardless of height. Over all my life, I've been a fitness buff, even taught it forever! : Check the tape and do your own research. In other words, a guy with a 40" waist needs to lose 40 lbs.
What do you do if your waist is less than 32"? Does it mean you are supposed to gain weight? I hope not or I will have a serious weight to gain.
Yech.Anne, who has oat bran and flaxseed every morning
Yech.
Health-nuts, let me ask a question that's been bugging me for a while. Dietary guidelines have been out there for a while that tell us to eat less fat, more fiber, etc for something like 20+ years now, right? An entire generation. And most of us either take this stuff seriously or at least know somebody who does, right?
So, why has the incidence of obesity and heart disease actually increased during this period?
Personally, I don't think the low-fat/bad-fat research is wrong per se, I just think there's an underlying incorrect assumption that dietary fat/cholesterol is more insidious than metabolically generated fat/cholesterol.
It'll probably be another 20 years or so before we know the answer, but somehow I doubt that mainstream nutritional advice is on-target. And it tastes bad too
Yeah, I was skeptical too. I completely ignored the whole low-carb thing as a fad until pretty recently. I was taught that sugar is basically inert and that "a calorie is a calorie." I only came around after my latest annual check-up with a new doc (who did his post-doc research on the effects of diet on CHD).I cant buy into the part that says "shovel meat and fat down as fast as you can".
But in retrospect, I used to eat a ton of carbs. Not just simple sugars, but fruit juices, starchy vegetables, breads, pasta, etc. Much more than evolution would have ever considered in her design of my digestive system. The result, in theory, is that we're all freaks of our sugar culture from an early age, and that it eventually catches up with us in the form of insulin resistance at about our age.
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I agree, on average, we are eating too much carb to start with. Average restaurant serving of pasta is double/triple of starch you are supposed to eat per meal. Coupled that with sedate lifestyle, tons of sugars and junk food, we got a problem. And we start them young too, by rewarding kids with candies, at Haloween, at Christmas, etc. (And people wonder why their kids are fatter today?)
Jane
I studied biochem in college (among other diversions), and the thinking at the time was that sugar was harmless. You burned it for energy, and the worst thing it could do to you was cause tooth decay.And we start them young too, by rewarding kids with candies, at Haloween, at Christmas, etc. (And people wonder why their kids are fatter today?)
TH, you are the master of fake studies, so I'll take you at your word here. I'll be the first to admit that I'm always skeptical of health studies given the potential conflicts of interest and the difficulty of designing long-term robust studies.The "german study" isnt real. It seems most fake studies are "german" or "swiss" for some reason. There are a number of 'studies' that show your body wont absorb and store excess fat. Any that actually has MD's involved and real results that can be analyzed show something different.
Calories are measured using a calorimeter. They basically burn stuff and measure how much heat is generated. Frankly, I never understood the assumption that calorimeters were a good model of metabolic "burning."Fat is converted to 9 calories per gram. Proteins and carbs are converted at half that rate.
Yup, that's the big unknown. Apparently, there are non-invasive tests (like cardiac calcium scoring) that will give you a more direct indication of cardiac health. Of course, insurance companies won't pay for them.Unfortunately while you can see blood test results from "low carb/high fat" eating right away, you cant see the long term results of a high fat diet on your heart health on a test.
Dude, I'm almost convinced that you're my aborted twinIn fact, some people have high trigylceride levels that appear to be genetic. Its in my family, and I can assure you it isnt diet related.
Yeah, those crazy Eskimos. They eat nothing but fat and cholesterol all day. But somehow they have no signs of coronary heart disease.But some did evolve to be almost/exclusively meat eaters. Like the Eskimo....