BIG is right... The last generation (b.1954) is obese, seriously,
seriously obese.
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/07/30/health/30age_graphic_a1.gif
6 foot, 280lbs. That's healthy [tm]?
I don't think so
"According to a definition of obesity was issued by the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute, "overweight" is as a BMI calculator value
between 25 and 29.9 and "obesity" is a BMI value greater than or equal
to 30." http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/av.htm
This guy's a "38".
According to http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm
(...and I'm not going to quibble about 20 lbs, or minor variations in
technique of formulation.
"Normal" as perceived by others of the same ht/wt/yymmdd/gender
225 lbs
Medical recommendation:
140 - 184 lbs
The picture at the top of the article shows 5 of 7 family members from
chest level up.
Let me take a guess.... Obese.
If we don't let the news media sell us bogus wars, why should we let
them sell us bogus health and lifestyle standards?
Yes, we live longer, more sentient(?) lives, and often spend our last
years in warehouses called nursing homes wishing to die.
Thats Progress?
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
Jayson Funke wrote:
> So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You
>
> By GINA KOLATA
>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/health/30age.html?hp&ex=1154318400&en=4b87d9ac7bfff359&ei=5094&partner=homepage
>
> Valentin Keller enlisted in an all-German unit of the Union Army in
Hamilton, Ohio, in 1862. He was 26, a small, slender man, 5 feet 4
inches tall, who had just become a naturalized citizen. He listed his
occupation as tailor.
>
> A year later, Keller was honorably discharged, sick and broken. He
had a lung ailment and was so crippled from arthritis in his hips that
he could barely walk.
>
> His pension record tells of his suffering. “His rheumatism is so that
he is unable to walk without the aid of crutches and then only with
great pain,” it says. His lungs and his joints never got better, and
Keller never worked again.
>
> He died at age 41 of “dropsy,” which probably meant that he had
congestive heart failure, a condition not associated with his time in
the Army. His 39-year-old wife, Otilia, died a month before him of what
her death certificate said was “exhaustion.”
>
> People of Valentin Keller’s era, like those before and after them,
expected to develop chronic diseases by their 40’s or 50’s. Keller’s
descendants had lung problems, they had heart problems, they had liver
problems. They died in their 50’s or 60’s.
>
> Now, though, life has changed. The family’s baby boomers are reaching
middle age and beyond and are doing fine.
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