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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
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- References: <1gq4p8INN2bb@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec18.032726.3309@omen.UUCP> <17914@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:45:02 GMT
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- In article <17914@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >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?
-
- From the age of 13 to 18, I was sufficiently thin that measures were
- considered, and even attempted, to put on weight. Before then, I had
- been both very thin and rather obese. After 19, my problem became the
- other. There were no essential changes in eating habits or exercise involved.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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