Half of normal-weight adults may still be too fat

If sick care has its way, you will never be right.

"People with body mass indexes (BMI) that fall into the normal range may still have to be concerned about obesity, a cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic warns.

Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez and his colleagues recently reported that people with normal BMIs but excess body fat were more likely to have high cholesterol, excess belly fat and other characteristics of the metabolic syndrome, a set of symptoms that puts people at greater risk of heart disease and diabetes. BMI is the ratio of height to weight that is frequently used to determine if an individual is over-weight or under-weight.

This condition, which Lopez-Jimenez and his team have termed 'normal-weight obesity,' was extremely common; they found it in 61 percent of a sample of 2,127 men and women with normal BMIs.

'It seems like it affects adults of all ages, men and women, and pretty much all races, according to our subgroup analysis,' the researcher told Reuters Health. 'The problem affects pretty much everybody.'"

Of course, another spin is that anything that "affects pretty much everybody" is called "normal."

Still there is a likelihood that soft, flabby normal-weight people are set-ups for some problems, though not as severe as the ones fat, flabby, high BMI people get.

Whatever. Perfection is a very tough standard.

Especially to those who make money from it, like these docs. As long as you are not perfect, they will sell you drugs, surgeries, office visits, hospital admissions, etc.

All for "your own good," not theirs.

Hah.

And speaking of imperfect, know that Mayo is one home of the IMHO Executioners' Diet that is the conventional wisdom of the sick care industry, AdipOprah and her experts and others.

Of course, another spin on Execution Dieting is that it is perfect - failure is guaranteed and you end-up perfectly sicker which is perfect for the sick care industry that makes its money from sick people.

Another imperfection.

"He and his colleagues are now investigating what people with normal-weight obesity can do to replace their excess body fat with lean mass."

It is not possible to replace fat with lean.

It is only possible to burn fat and build lean.

Of course, another spin on this advice is that it is perfectly foolish and is guaranteed to fail and you end-up perfectly sicker which is perfect for the sick care industry that makes its money from sick people.

Remember, Mayo is the home of IMHO killers and fitness morons.

And as for what to do?

Do this.