"Dally" wrote in message
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Pho Duc wrote:

Did Blair follow over 5,300 people with an average age of around 45
years
for a period ranging from 22 to 26 years? That is what the quoted study
did. That's a significant amount of people over a very significant
about
of time. The starting mean age is of particular significance since one
would expect a fair number of deaths over that period of time.

Sadly, the study revolved around BMI rather than BF%. Defining "fat" by
BMI rather than body composition makes the whole thing bull****. IMO.

The whole thing would be bull**** even with BF%. First, because
bf% is so hard to measure reliably. Second, because it doesn't much matter
anyway. Third, find out who funded the study, as well as researchers'
affiliations and love interests. These goddamm researchers pop in and out
of someone's life once every 5-10 years, and then purport conclusions as to
why they died? Give me a fukn break. Better yet, give me a Ouija board.
Next, call up the researchers a year from now, and ask them some
questions on their protocol. They won't have a fukn clue as to what went on
in that study. How do I know? Cuz I've made the goddamm phone calls, on
studies a lot more concrete than this bull****.
Does that tell you anything? NEXT! Old bull**** out, new
bull**** in--sheeiit, fellow PhD muhfugguhs, we gots jobs to keep, tenure to
procure!

Blair did not use mortality. He evaluated general health as a
function of fitness and fatness, real time IIRC. I guess he didn't want to
wait 'til people died.
More people than this were used to make bull**** conclusions
about cholesterol--orders of magnitudes more people. The unfortunate fact
is, the rat race is so severe in virtually all aspects of life that you
can't hardly trust anything that comes out of any facet of it, especially
when the "results" are vehicles to get out of the rat race--like keepin
one's job.
Good, classical research died a long time ago. Watson & Crick,
most likely, started the fraud in modern research.
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll

Dally