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June 30, 2005

I'll take my chances

I really am striving to be healthy. That’s why articles such as this make me a little nervous. You don’t have to go read it; basically it’s about research that shows moderately overweight people might be better off staying at their current weight rather than dieting to lose it. (It doesn’t apply to people whose weight is such that it causes other health problems.) They didn’t know why it appeared that people who dieted seemed to die younger than their non-dieting counter parts (they studied twins). I always heard that yo-yo dieting could be bad for you, I also never knew why.

In this other article they mentioned that a “study in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that people who are somewhat overweight, but not obese, have a lower risk of dying in a given year than those of normal weight.” That’s probably because “normal” in today’s social (bastardized) standards translates to TOO SKINNY for Mother Nature’s standards and “somewhat overweight” is probably JUST RIGHT.

It doesn’t surprise me that our bodies don’t respond well to starving ourselves. I wish I had never gotten heavy in the first place but I'll take my chances dieting.

Posted by hopeful @ June 30, 2005 11:30 PM