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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches

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To: FJB who wrote (1999)11/14/2008 10:35:06 AM
From: Joe NYC1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 39349
 
Bob,

The BMI is utterly worthless. It makes me question the intelligence of doctors as a whole.

There is a method that was mentioned in Dr. Eades article that he uses in his (Protein Power) books and picked up by Dr. Sears in his (Zone) books. For men, it involves 3 figures, weight, abdominal circumference and wrist circumference. I found the web site that takes these 3 parameters. You take those 3 figures and look up the % in a table.

I found a web site that takes these 3 parameters here, so I am assuming they use the same method:
in2nutrition.com

For females, the parameters are slightly different (IIRC, involving hip circumference as well).

Joe
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