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Re: Atkins = ? (should i start this again?)

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From: kaloalex
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 20:58
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Wayne S. Hill wrote:
> Vegetarian wrote:
> 
> 
>>JC Der Koenig wrote: 
>>
>>>>Look at your BMI. At 5'6" and 190, you are over 30, which
>>>>is categorized as obese.
>>>
>>>And if he is at 12% bodyfat? Still obese?
>>>
>>>Idiot.
>>
>>I highly doubt that having this pile of useless, worthless
>>muscles is doing anything good for his health. Having a BMI
>>of 32 is bad. Being fat at BMI 32 is horrible, being
>>muscular at BMI 32 is not that great either.
> 
> 
> References?  Can you point to any peer-reviewed studies that 
> indicate that "excess" muscle mass raises health risk?  BMI is 
> used as a simple-minded proxy for BF% because, in the broad 
> cross-section of society, people with high BMI have high BF.  
> It is an unwarranted leap to conclude that high BMI with low 
> BF% causes health risk.
> 
> 
>>Some dumbo bodybuilders think that by growing muscles, they
>>are doing themselves a favor. One needs to only look at
>>their IQ to realize that it is not the case and that they
>>are not benefitting. 
> 
> 
> Fascinating.  Please describe the process by which you 
> conflated an interest in hypertropy with a lack of IQ.

I'm far more interested in reading how the bbers all thought they would 
get smarter as hypertrophy was realized.  I had no idea intelligence 
increase was the goal; I didn't even know IQ _could_ be increased by 
adding muscle.

Silly me.

Maybe it's all that meat that makes them stoopid?  Or, perhaps, 
arguably, a lack of dietary meat has rendered "Vegetarian" logially inept?

Kalo
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