Category: BeingSuperFat
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More: How Very Obese People Are Almost Completely Sedentary…
37 comments on More: How Very Obese People Are Almost Completely Sedentary…Or rather, on how the “almost completely sedentary” in “Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary” is defined. The full text of the study isn’t freely available, but the abstract is linked in here. The results include: On average, subjects took 3,763 ± 2,223 steps. That implies a range between 1,430 and 5,986 steps a […]
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Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary?
For all the freaking out in the media about the obesity crisis, there’s not much research on folks who are very fat. So a study on folks with an average BMI of 53 shows some promise…right? Sorry. The headline: “Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary“. I’m not sure how many people are going to read beyond […]
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Fat Clothing Catalogs…
In my experience, there are two kinds of companies that put out supersize/extended-size catalogs for fat women: Large companies with mostly imported mass-produced clothing, cheap prices, and a propensity for selling their mailing lists. Quality tends to be uniform. Examples: Roaman’s, Woman Within, Silhouettes, Lane Bryant Catalog. Small specialty companies that only do plus or […]
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In context
BMI doesn’t tell you much, but it does tend to show a bell-style curve over a large population. The chart at right, showing population distribution of BMIs from Mississippi in 2003, (source) gives you a rough idea. My BMI is about 60. That chart? Doesn’t even show anyone of BMI 60. The official definition of “obese” […]
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