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- Path: sparky!uunet!omen!caf
- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:29:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.102922.11762@omen.UUCP>
- References: <1gq4p8INN2bb@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec18.032726.3309@omen.UUCP> <17914@pitt.UUCP>
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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?
-
- I'm including my raw BMI data below, such as I have. Some of the
- weights and heights were with clothes on possibly. Data up to
- 5909 are from school report cards. Format is YYMM where 6900 is
- an estimate (Jan = 01).
-
- Major Diet activity: "diet table" with modest weight loss in
- soph and junior high school seasons. 6305 -> 6309 weight loss
- was a doctor supervised in hospital total fast (lettuce and
- vinegar). The 340 to 202 weight loss was with Atkins, as was
- 280 to 224.4 (Atkins again). Atkins side-effects were tiredness
- after intensive lunch hour exercise (warm-up laps, ten 50 yard
- races) and some instances of postural hypotension. But I was
- younger then.
-
- The 403 to 343 loss was a combination of Pearson&Shaw, Cambridge
- Diet, and 800 calories worth of Weight Watchers' frozen dinners,
- which resulted in hair loss, heart palpitations, funny looking
- fingernails, severe fatigue, stomach upsets, and piano legs.
-
- As I recall we don't have good data from Gordon and some others.
- So let's get our information together and post it already.
-
-
- 4405 born
-
- 4909 60 45
- 5005 62.5 47
- 5009 77.25 50
- 5012 75 50.5
- 5103 75 51.25
- 5105 72.5 52
- 5201 78 51.75
- 5203 82 52
- 5205 86 52
- 5306 95.75 54
- 5309 109 56
- 5405 126.5 58
- 5409 128.5 59.5
- 5506 132.5 60
- 5509 144 61.5
- 5606 147 62
- 5609 161 63.25
- 5706 181 65.5
- 5709 187 65.75
- 5806 179 67
- 5809 191 67.5
- 5909 215 68
- 5910 207.5 69
- 6103 191 70
- 6305 250 71
- 6309 190 71
- 6401 205 71
- 6600 270 71
- 6900 340 71
- 7110 302 71
- 7205 280 71
- 7306 230 71
- 7307 235 71
- 7402 214 71
- 7404 202 71
- 7512 274 71
- 7603 253 71
- 7607 265.3 71
- 7702 247.7 71
- 7703 246 71
- 7706 224.4 71
- 8703 351.5 71
- 8704 358 71
- 8808 403 71
- 8909 343 71
- 9005 370 71
- 9206 450 71
-
- bmi.awk:
- # Usage:
- # awk -f bmi.awk <table >out
- #
-
- BEGIN {
- }
- {
- if ($3) {
- bmi = 704 * $2;
- bmi /= $3
- bmi /= $3
- printf "%d %d %d bmi: %d\n", $1-4405, $2, $3, bmi;
- }
- }
- END {
- }
-
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