Apr. 27th, 2004

Apr. 27th, 2004 03:08 pm

ahahhha

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I love it: (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] weetanya for the link)

Annual Deaths Attributable To Obesity In The United States, which appeared in the Journal Of The American Medical Association (Jama) in 1999, is the source for the endlessly repeated statistic that overweight causes around 300,000 extra deaths in the US every year. (This "fact" has been cited in the major media more than 1,700 times in the past two years alone.) Look at these figures more closely. As Glenn Gaesser, a professor at the University of Virginia points out, studies have consistently failed to find any correlation between increasing BMI and higher mortality in people 65 and over, and 78% of the approximately 2.3 million annual deaths in the US occur among people who are at least 65. Thus, 78% of all deaths lack even the beginning of a statistical link with BMI. "That leaves 500,000 annual deaths in persons under 65 that might be related to BMI," Gaesser told me. "These include deaths from every possible cause: motor vehicle and other accidents, homicides, suicides, cigarettes, alcohol, microbial agents, toxic agents, drug abuse, etc, etc. To think that 60% [ie, 300,000] of these deaths are due to body fat is absolutely preposterous."

From this fabulous article. (Edit: oooh! That's an excerpt from a book! *buys*)

dangerous weight!! must stop eating or you'll drop dead!!! )
Apr. 27th, 2004 05:48 pm

Joy

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They've reported seeing funnel clouds just north of me, and supposedly the exact area I'm in (lower Snohomish county) is at risk of more later.

Power is flickering, too. Should've known when I heard thunder and high winds in a mostly-clear sky.

And yes, this is in mountain country. Sigh...

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