Re: New Book of Rules


John Larkin wrote:
On 15 Aug 2006 16:09:53 -0700, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:


John Larkin wrote:
On 14 Aug 2006 17:56:13 -0700, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:




A couple of years ago, when I was more active, I did get down to 74 kgm
-163 lbs - pretty much what I weighed in my early twenties - which put
my BMI around 23 - the same as yours - which is low for a resident of
the U.S.A.

Two europeans in this ng have recently generalized that Americans are
overweight. And both of them admit to being overweight.

Check out the facts - about 60% of Americans are overweight (BMI over
25) and half of them are obese (BMI over 30)

http://www.obesity.org/subs/fastfacts/Obesity_Minority_Pop.shtml

Europe isn't as bad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bmi30chart.png

I don't think that my BMI of 25.3 - back to 25.12 today - is a
significant counter-example.

So your being overweight is somehow mitigated by other europeans being
thinner than the average American? This somehow makes you not a
"lardass"?

It makes Eurosheep less suitable for finding landmines tuned for
American lardasses.

My apologies, but I don't follow that logic; this carries
nationalism (or is it europeanism?) to lengths I just don't
understand.

Sicne you have just devised an ad hominum argument - a well known
logical fallacy - it isn't altogether surprising that you can't follow
the logic, that you have disingenuously set up.

Are you less likely to have a stroke or a heart attack
because you live near thin people?

I'm unlikely to have a stroke or a heart attack because my blood
pressure is controlled by the usual cocktail of ACE inhibitors,
beta-blockers and a statin.

My BMI is higher than I like, but since my waist circumference is fine,
the BMI doesn't indicate any threat to my cardio-vascular health.

I was supposed to go out to the first of this seasons field-hockey
practice sessions last night, but it poured with rain - I'm tolerably
fanatical about going to practice, but not that fanatical. The nine
that did go out managed to get in an hour of very damp practice before
the pitch got too wet to be playable.

I control my weight because it's healthy and it makes me feel and
think better. I don't do it out of nationalism, and I don't judge my
ideal weight relative the the residents of any continent.

Very sensible of you. My problem for wieight control is my wife's
emminent scientist life-style, which involves a certain amount of
compulsory social eating. These events are usually good for an instant
kilo of weight gain, which it takes me at least a week to get rid of
....

Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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