I gotta stop trying to find meaning in weight related research.
The calculators I found…
My grandfather was slim & trim at 185. He is categorized as overweight per BMI at that weight.
Now that he's… much less (he isn't well) he's skinny as can be. You can see his bones. I think he's around 150. He would be categorized as "healthy weight" and not underweight all the way down to 136 lbs.
This is obscene. It is obscene.
There is so much we don't know.
Of all of the studies I have found that indicate that "obese" people live shorter lives and have more health problems, so far NONE account for the following.
Higher weights & ACEs & Trauma
Higher weight is often related to ACEs. Do larger people have higher rates of health issues than folks of lower body weight, but similar types & severity of ACEs? What about trauma?
Diet & exercise
Does this disparity go away when controlling for diet and exercise? Do larger people still have lower life expectancy and worse health once they're exercising and eating nutritionally appropriate foods?
Poor global care
What amount of this morbidity and mortality can be accounted for by discrimination accounting for slower, less comprehensive, and poorer-quality care?
Longitudinal outcomes of weight loss
One: studies I've found indicate that if someone is inactive and has an imbalanced diet, a weight loss of about 10% may be sustainable for five years or more. For many, a 10% reduction in weight loss won't even lower their BMI by one category.
Two: Does that 10% weight loss come from healthy, sustainable lifestyle changes?
Three: Even IF higher weight DOES result in worse health outcomes after controlling for all these factors, does losing weight actually reduce these health risks? Particularly weight loss that is not accounted for by healthy, sustainable lifestyle changes?
And finally: what are the health risks of being underweight? health risks of yo-yo dieting? How much can a person's weight fluctuate for health?
