Fri, May-24-02, 07:37
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Plan: mostly paleo
Stats: //
BF:also don't care
Progress: 100%
Location: West Coast, USA
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Every world-class strength-based athlete (american football players, hockey players, weightlifters, some boxers) would fall into the "obese" category in BMI.
It is merely a rough, rough estimate of health (and has little statistical or real-world correlation to good/poor health, until BMIs get above 40 and under 20 or so). I think BMI was a rough, rough way to take a stab at BF, considering what the average person with fairly poor LBM might be like.
A good measure of health is how you feel. Other pretty good measures, imo, are BP, triglyceride levels, HDL: LDL ratios, and fasting insulin levels. An okay measure is BF (again, for women, body fats of 30% are just as healthy as BF's of a more socially-acceptable 20%). The scale and BMI are pretty poor measures of health.
But all the numerical measures are far less valuable than the one you can give yourself by asking how you feel (physically, mentally, spiritually). If you're on track with your eating and exercise, you should feel terrific.
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