Re: Re: Fitness Over Thinness for Hearts

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Well, I can reconcile (now that I'm 59# lighter), by saying the cron data matches us, maybe. And I don't know who will be the longest lived of the group that insists on weighing more, exercise or not. What's the virtue in being overweight to begin with? Why is someone trying to prove that being fit is more important? Ans: So we can justify being overweight.

But the weight gets very hard to lose after 55 yo and the exercise becomes increasingly hard to do.

Besides that, I don't know what "fit" is.

Regards.

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From: Rodney

Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:53 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Fitness Over Thinness for Hearts

Hi folks:The view that excess weight doesn't seem to matter for CVD does not seem to make any sense at all in the context of the WUSTL study.We know that people established on CRON (those studied in the WUSTL study) are all quite (very?) slim. (WC/H ~= 0.38 - 0.42; BMI ~= 18 - 20; BF% ~= 6% - 10%). We also know that the WUSTL subjects' heart disease risk ratings all dropped off the bottom of the charts as they lost weight in response to their reduced caloric intakes.So how are these two sets of data to be reconciled? Rodney.