Quote:
Originally posted by Nic Name
[b]Obese, no. Overweight, yes. Average, yes.
She's more ideal than, say, Calista Flockhart. But she is overweight and out of shape.
|
Out of shape, maybe. Overweight, no. Sure, she's got a little flab around her belly, but she's 44 years old; what do you want? BTW, she's 5'9"; according to the CDC guidelines she'd have to be 162 pounds to be overweight.
Quote:
|
The linked article makes the point that the American perspective is changing to accept as normal a body condition that is by world standards, and medical health standards according to the CDC, actually overweight.
|
Or maybe the CDC is off. They hold that Shaquille O'Neill and Arnold Schwartznegger are obese, after all.
They claim that at 5'7" and 155 pounds, I'm overweight (though barely). I've BEEN overweight. I'm not now. I've been 145 pounds too, which is in their good range. That was before I did any sort of exercise. If I tried to get to 145 now, I'd just burn muscle. Are a lot of Americans overweight and obese? Sure. Is the CDCs method for determining this any good? I think not. And thus their numbers have to be treated with skepticism, IMO.