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Fejfar Law and Medicine Articles Blog: Weight Standards for Men and Women in the United S...: "The weight standards used by doctors in the United States are totally irrational. It appears that the 'normative' standard that they are usi..."

Weight Standards for Men and Women in the United States

The weight standards used by doctors in the United States are totally irrational. It appears that the "normative" standard that they are using is not normative at all. If they are taking an average of any group, this is not statistically valid. Even if they are taking an average of an ethnic group, this is not statistically valid. For example, Czechs, Germans, Latvians, etc., in the United States have Viking blood, and the men tend to be over 6' 5" tall, and they are big boned. The studied of men for weight do not account for bone size and bone density. The weight studies do not account for muscalature versus fat. For example, a professional athlete, who has virtually no body fat, who weighs 275 pounds, can be wrongfully, diagnosed as grossly obese. For example, when I was just out of law school, and was working out at the gym, lifting weights, swimming, and jumping rope, three time a week, as a 6' 5" male, my doctor told me that I should lose 10 pounds. This is absolutely ridiculous. Now, what I think is really going on is that these alleged studies are based on studies or models that are totally irrational. For example, it may be that American weight standards after World War II are based on a study of the weights of Japanese prisoners of war, who are small in stature, and who had been on starvation rations in an American Prisoner of War Camp for at least 6 months. The pre-World War II weight standards for Officers (college educated men) show that a 6' 5" male, officer, should weight between 350 and 450 pounds. See, for example, the weight of General Schwartkopf from the Gulf War. I have also heard that the Clinton weight standards were put togather by Hilary Clinton, and that the weight standards for men are based upon the weight of women. Apparently, the misogonsita (male hater) Hilllary Clinton was doing everything she could to torture and destroy American men. Finally, to the extent any seemingly valid studies have been done, they have probably been done with irrational standard deviations above .01% .