Comments on: Body Mass Index and Diabetes http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/07/syndrome-x-a-horrible-graph-of-nurses-and-bmis.html Yet Another Media Spotlight Sat, 19 May 2012 04:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tom Chappell http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/07/syndrome-x-a-horrible-graph-of-nurses-and-bmis.html#comment-256 Tom Chappell Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:09:06 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/2007/07/syndrome-x-a-horrible-graph-of-nurses-and-bmis.html#comment-256 John Blackburn wondered what the diabetes line did as it sailed off for the moon. The September 2007 issue of Scientific American has this: <blockquote>Many Americans find it difficult to get under a BMI of 25, the border between overweight and healthy groups. But Willett's work suggests that losing more weight is even better. To take one example, people with a BMI of 20 who gain enough to reach a BMI of 25 have quadrupled their risk of diabetes, Willett says. "If they go up over a BMI of 30, they've increased their risk of diabetes 30- to 60-fold," he says. "And diabetes is not a good thing to have."</blockquote> "Can Fat Be Fit?", by Paul Raeburn, Scientific American, September, 2007, p. 70. John Blackburn wondered what the diabetes line did as it sailed off for the moon. The September 2007 issue of Scientific American has this:

Many Americans find it difficult to get under a BMI of 25, the border between overweight and healthy groups. But Willett’s work suggests that losing more weight is even better. To take one example, people with a BMI of 20 who gain enough to reach a BMI of 25 have quadrupled their risk of diabetes, Willett says. “If they go up over a BMI of 30, they’ve increased their risk of diabetes 30- to 60-fold,” he says. “And diabetes is not a good thing to have.”

“Can Fat Be Fit?”, by Paul Raeburn, Scientific American, September, 2007, p. 70.

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