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Simon Brooke
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in message <[email protected]>, Arthur Clune
('[email protected]') wrote:
> Roos Eisma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> : "What is a healthy weight?
> : Obesity is related to body size. You can check your size by
> : measuring around your waist with a tape. Health risks are greater
> : when the waist is more than 94 cm/37 inches in men, or 80 cm/32
> : inches in women."
>
> I'm going to go against the rest of the group and defend this here.
>
> Yes, Roos clearly isn't overweight, but
> is this *such* a bad general rule?
Yes. I have a female friend who is a well proportioned adult - not a
dwarf, not stunted by illness or disease, not malformed or
misproportioned - who is four foot nine inches tall. I have several
other adult friends who are under five feet. If they had thirty two
inch waists they would be obese indeed. I have other female friends who
are in excess of six feet tall. A 32 inch waist on them would not be
obese at all.
Adult women in our culture vary in height by about 33%. A single fixed
measurement cannot be appropriate for all women. The same is equally
true of men, of course.
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('[email protected]') wrote:
> Roos Eisma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> : "What is a healthy weight?
> : Obesity is related to body size. You can check your size by
> : measuring around your waist with a tape. Health risks are greater
> : when the waist is more than 94 cm/37 inches in men, or 80 cm/32
> : inches in women."
>
> I'm going to go against the rest of the group and defend this here.
>
> Yes, Roos clearly isn't overweight, but
> is this *such* a bad general rule?
Yes. I have a female friend who is a well proportioned adult - not a
dwarf, not stunted by illness or disease, not malformed or
misproportioned - who is four foot nine inches tall. I have several
other adult friends who are under five feet. If they had thirty two
inch waists they would be obese indeed. I have other female friends who
are in excess of six feet tall. A 32 inch waist on them would not be
obese at all.
Adult women in our culture vary in height by about 33%. A single fixed
measurement cannot be appropriate for all women. The same is equally
true of men, of course.
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; Sending your money to someone just because they've erected
;; a barrier of obscurity and secrets around the tools you
;; need to use your data does not help the economy or spur
;; innovation. - Waffle Iron Slashdot, June 16th, 2002