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How do you know you are obese? how does your DOCTOR know?
I had the misfortune of going to a young endocrinologist last week who blithely told me without any examination whatsoever, that I was morbidly obese.
Not. How do they come up with this stuff? They use a silly little thing that applies only in some cases, and not in others, known as the "Body Mass Index." As Edward Spurlock has been hammering away at in Geek Your Fitness, he supplied me with the first clue to what my real problem is, and it was NOT "morbid obesity." The pure medical concept of "obesity" is "too fat." Which implies that your body has an excessive amount of adipose tissue. Well what is it that makes us bigger than other people? And what makes us heavier? A little basic chemistry and body-fat analysis after the fold.
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