Height/Weight: Re: [geeks] quiet

[Mike Meredith]

Hi

It sounds like I've picked the wrong person to argue this with :)

On Thursday 06 June 2002 18:47, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> skeletal structure.  It wasn't accurate then, and isn't accurate now.
>  The reason why the BMI ever took off in the first place was that the
> overwhelming majority of the population was uneducated about health
> and fitness - so very few people thought to question it.

Sounds like a Friday afternoon idea.

> You've seen me, right?
> http://www.k-huhn.com/images/kurtinthekitchen.jpg

Well you certainly don't look *morbidly obese*; actually I'm not sure
you can tell too much from a picture ... I *look* less overweight in a
photo than I am.

> My skeletal structure wouldn't do 160 without me looking like a
> friggen scarecrow - and that is the opposite end of unhealthy scale.
> Me, at 160, I'd look like I had end-stage leukemia or something...

Certainly it's as bad as being unhealthily overweight. And the clanking
as such people walk down the street is very irritating.

> Judge for yourself:
> http://www.k-huhn.com/images/jordyandkenzie.jpg
> standing in front of the stove in the kitchen.  Mackenzie is standing

Well they certainly don't look overweight.