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Re:Overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disea... by nottorp on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:36AM (#42396515)
Or basically: there are outliers, and those tend to complain. But the average billions cancel them out statistically.

I'm an outlier myself, and so is anyone who did some serious sports for a significant amount of time. There are other reasons to be an outlier too. But they're not so statistically significant.

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Re:Overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disea... by xarope on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:08AM (#42396662)
ditto. Always a bit frustrating when the sadly overweight nurse looks at my height and weight, charts it, and mutters to themselves "borderline". My last visit, at least the doctor deigned to actually eyeball me and said "you look like you are quite active, we can ignore this".
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Re:Overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disea... by nottorp on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:15AM (#42400436)
Oh I'm inarguably overweight, but not to the point the BMI would indicate, considering that when i was younger and in top form i was between 29 and 30.
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