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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <17914@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 00:53:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.224957.11233@omen.UUCP> <1gq4p8INN2bb@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec18.032726.3309@omen.UUCP>
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- In article <1992Dec18.032726.3309@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >Jim and I were heavy from an early age. Al was normal until
- >puberty. During high school none of us were morbidly obese,
- >not be a long shot. What we had was more like "middle age
- >spread", without the gray hair. I was 210 pounds when I was 15.
- >Jim and I are at least twice as fat after multiple diet cycling.
- >Diet cycling has not been as fattening for Al; this is
- >consistent with the medical literature that notes those with
- >childhood onset obesity are most susceptible to diet cycling.
-
- Well, if we are going to use the personal data, let us see what
- kinds of cycles we are dealing with. Keith gave his data, I
- gave mine. I was also 210 lbs at age 15 and 335 at age 25.
- So when you cycled the deepest, what kind of weight loss are
- we talking about? Was it over 100 lbs? Or are we talking about
- 25 lb cycles? Did you ever go from being morbidly obese (let's
- say > 300 lbs) to under 200 lbs? How long did your longest
- continual diet last?
-
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