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Geoff Miller (geoffm@Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:

: Excuse me?  "Obese" merely means "fat" -- which I'd certainly say *is*
: a medical problem, given that being overweight is after all less
: healthy than being !overweight.  

Excuse me, as well. I have often been called "fat", and by medical 
standards have alway been "overweight", Nobody has ever called me 
"obese". 

I weigh in at about 280, and according to the scale the medicos like to
show you, I am about 100 lbs overweight. Now, sure, I could stand to 
lose about 30 lbs, or so of the beer and kibble that I have collected 
over the last 10 years, but when I was at about 250, I was virtually 
fat free, even though I still was sixty or seventy lbs over the 
"perfect" weight that the medical charts suggest for my height. 

Obese is generally reserved for defining those who are seriously 
overweight, to the point of medical difficulty. 

Buddy (yes, I've been told that my $.02 worth is not of any value, but
	I have always been willing to share it, anyway) Bear




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