Mon, Sep-24-01, 06:00
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,212
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Plan: My own (based on a compil
Stats: 333/260/224
BF:
Progress: 67%
Location: Hampshire, England
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Understood, and perfectly understandable, if I may say so. I think 168 would be a good goal. No, seriously. My "ideal" weight according to the insurance charts is around 13st., but realistically, I have no chance of getting below 15. (And even then I'm skin and bone).
History lesson here, in repayment for the Welsh. These ideal weight tables the insurance companies use were arbitrarily calculated on the volume of air a person of a given height would be likely to breathe in. Crazy, if you ask me. I know you've studied medicine, but I would have to hear a pretty good reason to convince me that the volume of air one breathes in has any bearing on weight/heart/health/wellbeing, etc. What about exercise. As this increases a person's volume of inspiration, does he have to grow a foot to get into the right insurance bracket?
And doctors all over the world are giving people a hard time because they do not conform. Incidentally, if you want the reference source for this, it is Banting's "Letter on Corpulence", published in this very forum.
Bore da.
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