and even by how I feel, the chart I just saw tonight about BMI is really too much, IMO.
Oh it may be the healthiest. I remember news stories a few years ago that the best way to live as long as possible was to eat barely above the starvation level. They were interviewing some guy that was only eating what he calculate was bare minimum calories not to get sick.
The chart is in an advertising section, so maybe is exaggerated? Supposely to guage your risk for diabetes, with the lowest risk being a MBI under 25.
The ideal that a 6 foot 3 inch person should weigh less than 200 pounds may be their best guess for to lower your risk for diabetes. But very few outside of the naturally slim will ever meet that strict a standards even in excellent health. I believe the 6 foot person was 183 pounds or less. That's pretty slendar for a 6 foot man. Some are naturally that slim, some of us would be miserable and suffer daily to meet that guide.
I know I need to loose lots of weight and excercise more. But even when I was roller skating 2 to 3 hours for 4 or more nights a week, jogging 2 miles 3 to 5 days a week, and lifting weights 4 days or more a week, I was at or above 225 at 6 feet and half inch. No one looking at me believed it but I was.
Maybe I can live to be a 100+ if I live on a 1200 calories a day the rest of my life. But maybe it would only seem like 200 years in denial.
roger