Mara, You are totally my new hero.

I have been lucky enough to not be "fat" However, I have an intelligent, well educated beautiful and wonderfully nice sister who is morbidly obese. I see the way other people treat her. Let's just say that people can be amazingly cruel to a random strange walking down the street. The funny thing is, her"health" is wonderful. Her blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol are all perfect. However, I am thin but a bit of a stress case. I'm the one who has doctors worried about blood pressure.

Maybe our society's ideas about what "looks" healthy are exactly accurate. I am a scientist and I can't for the life of me figure our how the various weight ranges on the BMI were determined. Also, the data appears to say the people who are "overweight" actually live longer that those who are of "normal weight." Maybe it is time to rethink the BMI.