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If the road to hell is really paved with good intentions, the food industry's obesity "solution" may have us on a superhighway headed South.
What's troubling about the "obesity crisis" is not
The recent obesity scare stuff comes from the Body Mass Index (BMI), a tool used by governments to efficiently figure out who is "overweight" and who is "healthy." A few years ago, the U.S. recalculated the scale and effectively "defined overweight down" by a simple change in definitions. Thirty million "fit" Americans went to sleep one night and woke up "fat" the next morning.
Can headline writers and trial lawyers rightly claim, "twice as many Americans are obese today as were in the 1970s?" Sure, but only because "obese" doesn't mean what it used to. By BMI current standards, world-class athletes such as Michael Jordan and Cal Ripken, Jr. are "overweight," and physical specimens such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are now deemed "obese."
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