[Sca-cooks] sugar problems

[Tom Vincent]

Are you talking about statistics or medicine?  There appear to be very 
few absolutes in medicine and I don't see the relevancy of how they 
would effect ranges of normal, under-weight, over-weight and obese 
BMIs.  Let's drop the irrelevancy of uber-athletes that others have 
mentioned.  Everyone knows that's not what we're talking about here.

Duriel

grizly wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> <<<SNIP>>>"Normal", in reference to BMI, means neither over-weight nor
> under-weight.  It doesn't equate to "Average".
>
> Duriel > > > > >
>
>
> "Normal" is a definition that has been quite "fluid" over generations,
> though.  As scientists who ge tot decide such things learn more and more
> about human body functioning and differences, the "fat part of the bell
> curve" gets changed more and more.  OVer-weight and under-weight in raltion
> to "what"?  The "what" is not an absolute, and does vary.  Sure, 260# US is
> pretty much universally considered overweight for a 5'10" man or woman, but
> this is not where the rubber meets the road in defining norms.  The norm
> gets challenged when you get tothe 1st ot 2nd standard deviation in the
> distribution . . . closer and closer to what may be "normal" or the
> "statistical mean".
>
> BMI, while it may be widely used today by many types of professionals, was
> created for a specific purpose that I believe was not to describe what is
> the funtional range of health for humans in general.  I believe it is not
> unlike many other devises throughout history in that it had a specific
> sponsor and need to be used for.
>
> niccolo difrancesco
>
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