NEW YORK — A century ago, Elsie Scheel was the perfect woman. So said a 1912 article in The New York Times about how Scheel, 24, was chosen by the ‘‘medical examiner of the 400 ‘coeds’ ’’ at Cornell University as a woman ‘‘whose very presence bespeaks perfect health.’’
At 5-foot-7 and 171 pounds, she would, by today’s medical standards, be overweight. (Her body mass index was 27; 25 to 29.9 is overweight.)
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Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is misleading when he claims that, " body mass index is an imperfect measure of the risk of mortality.’’ The factors that result from larger body mass index are the following conditions of high " blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar."
The exact same factors contribute to poor health and subsequent death. Look up-stream Dr.Klein, look up-stream and find the high body mass or obesity. No sugar coating the conversation to appease the people with high body mass (fat) who try very hard to convince themselves and everyone else stupid enough to believe them that they are healthy _ when they are very unhealthy.