She's athletic and she climbs trees and runs and plays games and really enjoys herself, and her body is her friend. I start to see hints of it right now. If she is the typical young female, the war with her body will begin at puberty. I don't like the term ideal weight. I don't think we know what any person's ideal weight is.
Human beings come in different sizes and shapes.
Some of us are short and stocky. Some are tall and skinny. Surprisingly, we found that the men who were fat but who were also fit, actually had no increased mortality rate. In fact the fat, fit men had far lower death rates than the normal weight men who were unfit. So the bottom line in this research, at least in this set of observations, is that lack of fitness seems to be much more important than fatness, as a predicator of which men were going to die during this eighth year follow up.