Overweight usually means "eat more". If one can eat more, usually means have
some $$$ to purchase more food which usually means have $$$ for medical
insurance and care or have better(or worse) government to spend tax payers's
money to care you.
Comparing with third world poor countries, we have much more $$$ to be able to
eat more and have better medical care.
On 8 May 2005 06:27:40 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
=>"One caveat: Systolic BP over 115 is now considered "pre-hypertensive."
=>"
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=>Also keep in mind that these great geniuses who are telling us that BP
=>guidelines need to be lowered are similar to the clowns that a couple
=>of weeks ago announced that everything they've been telling us about
=>being overweight and premature death was very wrong. For decades, we
=>were told being even modestly overweight would shorten our lives and
=>that 400,000 in the US die prematurely. Now they suddenly say,
=>Whoops!, people modestly overweight actuallylive longer and they
=>reduced the premature death rate from obesity by an order of magnitude.
=> This is totally shocking to me, because weight and longevity should be
=>some of the most readily available data. Yet, these guys try to
=>extract info from harder to obtain data like cholesterol levels, BP and
=>tell us what's right? Or maybe even more absurd, what I would call
=>third order effects, like second hand smoke. They can't figure out if
=>being 10lbs overweight means you're gonna die early, but they can tell
=>us how many die from second hand smoke?
=>
=>Now, when it comes to similar advice for BP, I'm even more suspicious.
=>While I'm no conspiracy buff, keep in mind that just lowering these
=>guidelines by a few points will put millions more on lifetime
=>medication, which is big $$$. One has to wonder where the new data
=>came from, who may have helped pay for it, where the researchers came
=>from, etc.
