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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:52:00 -0400, Kevin J
! wrote:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:45:36 GMT, Radioactive Man wrote:

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:34:19 -0500, Dally wrote:


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.

Dally


Not necessarily. BMI is a function many factors besides body fat,
including bone size/density, muscle mass, fluid retention, etc.
Thus, you cannot say an individual has too much or too little fat
tissue based solely on BMI. The same cannot be said for the BMI of
a
population or statistically large enough sample of individuals,
since variations in body fat would be the most probable cause for
variations in BMI between populations or large samples of
populations. If you take a population and divide it into groups
based on BMI, what you really end up with is a probability, not a
certainty, that an
individual will be overweight due to excess body fat. If you've
got a BMI of 26, there's a good chance it's due to factors besides
body fat. As you increase BMI, that probability gets smaller and
smaller,
eventually reaching zero.

Do you mean to say that someone who is 600 lbs is that way because
of body fat?

Shocking!!

With observations like that I am surprised you can put one foot in
from of the other without tripping.

LV


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