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Old November 9th, 2003, 08:06 PM
Wayne S. Hill
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Vegetarian wrote:

JC Der Koenig wrote:
Look at your BMI. At 5'6" and 190, you are over 30, which
is categorized as obese.


And if he is at 12% bodyfat? Still obese?

Idiot.


I highly doubt that having this pile of useless, worthless
muscles is doing anything good for his health. Having a BMI
of 32 is bad. Being fat at BMI 32 is horrible, being
muscular at BMI 32 is not that great either.


References? Can you point to any peer-reviewed studies that
indicate that "excess" muscle mass raises health risk? BMI is
used as a simple-minded proxy for BF% because, in the broad
cross-section of society, people with high BMI have high BF.
It is an unwarranted leap to conclude that high BMI with low
BF% causes health risk.

Some dumbo bodybuilders think that by growing muscles, they
are doing themselves a favor. One needs to only look at
their IQ to realize that it is not the case and that they
are not benefitting.


Fascinating. Please describe the process by which you
conflated an interest in hypertropy with a lack of IQ.

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-Wayne