From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:29:22 GMT

In article <17914@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.032726.3309@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>>Jim and I were heavy from an early age.  Al was normal until
>>puberty.  During high school none of us were morbidly obese,
>>not be a long shot.  What we had was more like "middle age
>>spread", without the gray hair.  I was 210 pounds when I was 15.
>>Jim and I are at least twice as fat after multiple diet cycling.
>>Diet cycling has not been as fattening for Al; this is
>>consistent with the medical literature that notes those with
>>childhood onset obesity are most susceptible to diet cycling.
>
>Well, if we are going to use the personal data, let us see what
>kinds of cycles we are dealing with.  Keith gave his data, I
>gave mine.  I was also 210 lbs at age 15 and 335 at age 25.
>So when you cycled the deepest, what kind of weight loss are
>we talking about?  Was it over 100 lbs?  Or are we talking about
>25 lb cycles?  Did you ever go from being morbidly obese (let's
>say > 300 lbs) to under 200 lbs?  How long did your longest
>continual diet last?

I'm including my raw BMI data below, such as I have.  Some of the
weights and heights were with clothes on possibly.  Data up to
5909 are from school report cards. Format is YYMM where 6900 is
an estimate (Jan = 01). 

Major Diet activity: "diet table" with modest weight loss in
soph and junior high school seasons.  6305 -> 6309 weight loss
was a doctor supervised in hospital total fast (lettuce and
vinegar).  The 340 to 202 weight loss was with Atkins, as was
280 to 224.4 (Atkins again).  Atkins side-effects were tiredness
after intensive lunch hour exercise (warm-up laps, ten 50 yard
races) and some instances of postural hypotension.  But I was
younger then.

The 403 to 343 loss was a combination of Pearson&Shaw, Cambridge
Diet, and 800 calories worth of Weight Watchers' frozen dinners,
which resulted in hair loss, heart palpitations, funny looking
fingernails, severe fatigue, stomach upsets, and piano legs.

As I recall we don't have good data from Gordon and some others.
So let's get our information together and post it already.


4405	born

4909	60	45
5005	62.5	47
5009	77.25	50
5012	75	50.5
5103	75	51.25
5105	72.5	52
5201	78	51.75
5203	82	52
5205	86	52
5306	95.75	54
5309	109	56
5405	126.5	58
5409	128.5	59.5
5506	132.5	60
5509	144	61.5
5606	147	62
5609	161	63.25
5706	181	65.5
5709	187	65.75
5806	179	67
5809	191	67.5
5909	215	68
5910	207.5	69
6103	191	70
6305	250	71
6309	190	71
6401	205	71
6600	270	71
6900	340	71
7110	302	71
7205	280	71
7306	230	71
7307	235	71
7402	214	71
7404	202	71
7512	274	71
7603	253	71
7607	265.3	71
7702	247.7	71
7703	246	71
7706	224.4	71
8703	351.5	71
8704	358	71
8808	403	71
8909	343	71
9005	370	71
9206	450	71

bmi.awk:
# Usage:
#	awk -f bmi.awk <table >out
#

BEGIN	{
	}
	{
		if ($3) {
			bmi = 704 * $2;
			bmi /= $3
			bmi /= $3
			printf "%d %d %d	bmi: %d\n", $1-4405, $2, $3, bmi;
		}
	}
END	{ 
	}

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