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  1. JDavis

    AMA says BMI is "imperfect"

    Been there. I guess I like the validation from the medical community of having the "right" body fat, but really who is to judge that? Everyone has a different testosterone/estrogen ratio plus other somatic genes that come into play to determine body fat ratio and distribution. Why is high...
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    AMA says BMI is "imperfect"

    https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-adopts-new-policy-clarifying-role-bmi-measure-medicine
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    CraigsToast ! Jenny Craig Gives Up ...

    That's so great. I recently read that Weight Watchers closed down all brick and mortar stores during the pandemic. Ding dong the witch is dead. Not unlike conversion therapy IMO.
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    Another thing discussed in the HAES book that blew me away is that when fat women were in fashion at the turn of the last century ( late 1800s to early 1900s) insurance companies charged thin people a premium, just like they do now with high bmi individuals. I also read many years ago that most...
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    LOL. No pun intended. I am not the best writer in the world. I struggle to get my ideas out there for sure. My answer to the statement "lean is healthier than not lean"...who is leaner men or women? Who dies earlier?
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    My theory is that the "overweight" people are the genetic mutts of the human world. Part cold climate (stocky) and part hot climate (lanky). As we know, mutts are often much more healthy than pure bred animals. I am pretty pure bred stocky Northern German, although I have a bit of lanky Swedish...
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    I appreciate yours as well. I have been talking about set point on here to feeders for a few years now but it seems to fall on deaf ears. I recently learned some new information about being over your set point from the HAES book. 1.Set point signals are not as strong when you go over your set...
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    I would think maybe the only exception to all this advice are people who have a mutation in their hunger pathway such as Leptin deficiency, Prader Willy Syndrome and other unknown gene dysfunction (there are believed to be about 100 genes in the hunger pathway so not too surprising that...
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    I can't remember for sure 100% off hand but I think if you divide people into 4 categories you get from least healthy to healthiest: 1. thinnest 2. fattest 3. "average" 4. overweight Again, like I said, since size is not a choice it does not matter. There is no proof that a thinnest or fattest...
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    The set point also rises and falls with age. It does so much more dramatically with fat people than with thin people. I am currently in the falling phase of this set point movement and it is very odd. My increase was much more percentage wise than in this graph although I am in the 99.99% ile...
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    Trigger warning: Fat acceptance movement partially blamed for death of 16-year-old "morbidly obese" young man.

    I just listened to the book Health At Every Size on Audible. I really like the way in which it explains how anyone who does not believe in the set point theory is someone who does not believe in their own experience. In the USA ( and other countries as well) we do get gaslighted daily that the...
  12. JDavis

    What size are you all?

    Age: 55 Height: 5'9.5" Weight: 325 lbs, but dropping due to age and blood sugar issues. Waist: 49" Size: 3x, 24/26
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    Models getting fat

    Thin people won't have any more success getting fat than fat people have getting thin. Other than a small range, we do not have much control over our size.
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    Models getting fat

    I think the pendulum is just swinging back to short and stocky being in fashion. My generation of wealthy mothers was short and stocky. They had wealthy short stocky sons who wanted to marry tall thin women (still smaller than them). Now their wealthy tall thin sons want to marry short fat...
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    How did you respond when health issues arose?

    I just read an interesting newer study about BMI and diabetes. They admitted, that while people with higher BMIs are more likely to get diabetes, the BMI is not the cause of the diabetes. The new model is that some people store fat in their pancreas at a certain weight and they need to stay...
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