Average Weight For American Women (And A Few Other Countries) Surprising!

Often I've read that a little overweight is not unhealthy, on the contrary. Well ... I am a little overweight :ROFLMAO:

Edit: I've just read the headline again and noticed that the thread is about the question of overweight in women.
Obviously I am no woman, but let me think about it. Meanwhile in my country is so much confusion about the question how somebody is reading him- or her- or otherself.
 

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Born_To_Lose said:
I never had a weight problem, but being slim, not thin isn’t necessarily a good thing. Seven years ago, I had a terrible case of pneumonia. I had no appetite and only drank water for the first 6 days in the hospital. I had lost 9 pounds in those 6 days. A Pulmonologist checked out my lungs and put me through some breathing exercises. He said for me to breath as fast as I could for 30 seconds. I got to 26 inhales and exhales before I passed out.

He then told me that if I didn’t start eating, I wouldn’t be able to reverse the damage I am causing to my lungs and will probably die within days. He put me on a high calorie, high protein diet. I had lost 14 pounds in 12 days. I started eating anything and everything. They were feeding me red meat, potatoes, spaghetti and meatballs, one-third pound hamburgers for lunch, and of course, assorted pies, cakes and cookies and lastly, milkshakes made with real ice cream.

Eating that diet, I was gaining over a pound a day. I wanted to know what gaining weight had to do with my recovery. He said because the pneumonia puts a lot of stress on the body and the only way to alleviate the stress is to feed the body. Not every doctor agrees with that theory, but it worked for me.
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One of the problems in eating well is getting lots of nutrients while keeping calories down.

I try to avoid sugary foods. And highly processed foods. That seems to work for me. It is more work in the kitchen.
 
January said:
Good general rule.

If I drink soda it is almost always the sugar free variety - I don't find this stimulates me to eat more, as was claimed upthread.
I am also not,nor ever have been, obese.
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Go ahead and drink that stuff...it may eventually catch up with you.

Sad but True: Diet Sodas Are Bad for Your Health

I keep some Artificial Sweetener on hand. In the Spring/Summer I spread a little around on the decks....it is the best Ant Poison I've ever found..
 

Or it may not.

^^ Most of that link is just opinion.

The 1 link within it that linked to any actual research stated similar to earlier upthread claim that artificial sweeteners caused people to crave more sweets.

This hasn't happened to me in over a decade of drinking artificially sweetened drinks so I think safe to assume it is not going to.
 
hollydolly said:
Have you ever looked at the myriad of youtube shopping videos.. mainly from low budget stores like Aldi or Asda.. and at least a 1/3 rd are made up of chocolate, cake, sweets, crisps, ( french fries)...sugar laden stuff.. the rest of low quality things lie cheap sausages , pies etc... and in a haul of £100 there might be one green vegetable...
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That is so sad and explains why heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity is on the rise in every 'wealthy' country.
 
Born_To_Lose said:
I never had a weight problem, but being slim, not thin isn’t necessarily a good thing. Seven years ago, I had a terrible case of pneumonia. I had no appetite and only drank water for the first 6 days in the hospital. I had lost 9 pounds in those 6 days. A Pulmonologist checked out my lungs and put me through some breathing exercises. He said for me to breath as fast as I could for 30 seconds. I got to 26 inhales and exhales before I passed out.

He then told me that if I didn’t start eating, I wouldn’t be able to reverse the damage I am causing to my lungs and will probably die within days. He put me on a high calorie, high protein diet. I had lost 14 pounds in 12 days. I started eating anything and everything. They were feeding me red meat, potatoes, spaghetti and meatballs, one-third pound hamburgers for lunch, and of course, assorted pies, cakes and cookies and lastly, milkshakes made with real ice cream.

Eating that diet, I was gaining over a pound a day. I wanted to know what gaining weight had to do with my recovery. He said because the pneumonia puts a lot of stress on the body and the only way to alleviate the stress is to feed the body. Not every doctor agrees with that theory, but it worked for me.
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I have been on this diet since I was hospitalized for pnemonia when I was 10 years old. It worked, I never caught pnemonia again. I am, however, a bit fluffy.

Are you saying I was supposed to stop eating so much once I was released from the hospital?
 
Born_To_Lose said:
I never had a weight problem, but being slim, not thin isn’t necessarily a good thing. Seven years ago, I had a terrible case of pneumonia. I had no appetite and only drank water for the first 6 days in the hospital. I had lost 9 pounds in those 6 days. A Pulmonologist checked out my lungs and put me through some breathing exercises. He said for me to breath as fast as I could for 30 seconds. I got to 26 inhales and exhales before I passed out.

He then told me that if I didn’t start eating, I wouldn’t be able to reverse the damage I am causing to my lungs and will probably die within days.
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That you passed out was normal after all that excessive hyperventilation, aka over breathing of oxygen.
He probably knew that and was purposely misleading you as the other things he said were total nonsense as well.
Grossly overweight people don't breath better than people who breathe normally. That is illogical and is also nonsense.

The cells of the body have to contain a certain amount of CO2 in order to exchange with oxygen from the bloodstream.
When all the CO2 is washed out from the cells, the O2 in the blood is not able to exchange with CO2 at the cellular level.
This is the case even if the blood is 99% saturated with O2, because CO2 at the cellular level is required for proper exchange.

This vital exchange is called the Bohr Effect and is explained in more detail at this link. <--
Note on that same page that people who are sick usually breathe 2 to 3 times as much as people who are healthy.
This is because they are breathing too much! Yet sadly that is something the doctors of death wrongly tell people to do.

Here are two videos by free diving coaches who explain why free divers should NOT hyperventilate.
Video #1 <-- and video #2 <-- as hyperventilation can and does cause free divers to black out and die underwater.
Here is one of my previous posts <-- about the Bohr Effect and hyperventilation.
 
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I'm 88, storing fat in my belly to live off of in case of a sudden real long food shortage. 🍔
 

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