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another reason not to prefer guys with love handles

From the Washington Post:

Bad news for all those baby boomers starting to pile on the pounds as they go through middle age: You don’t have to be obese — just a little overweight — to increase your risk of dying prematurely, according to a large government study.

The 10-year study of more than 500,000 U.S. adults found that those who were just moderately overweight in their fifties were 20 percent to 40 percent more likely to die in the next decade. Another study involving more than 1 million Korean adults, also being published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, produced similar results.

Take that, Laren!

You can calculate your BMI here.

14 comments to another reason not to prefer guys with love handles

  • Fine. He can BE healthy, but he just can’t be OBSESSIVE about it. How’s that for a compromise? He’s also not allowed to take longer to get ready in the morning than I do.

  • What do you mean by obsessive? I’m not currently doing two-a-days or 84-mile weeks like Chelle. That is obsessive, I think … but a little obsession isn’t a bad thing.

    In any case, running is my passion, and I would only want to be with people who could support my passions, even if they don’t share them.

  • Two-a-days are obsessive. Not EVER re-arranging one’s schedule due to the class schedule at the gym is obsessive. Worrying about being away from one’s trainer for a week is obsessive. Having a passion for running (or biking, or something active) and incorporating it into one’s life in a balanced fashion (a daily run or a cycling vacation, for example) is not obsessive. All of this is in my opinion, of course.

  • themofo

    You know, that BMI thing is kinda suspect– it says my BMI is 23.5, when overweight would be 24.9. Anybody who sees my physical stature (6-foot-1, 178 pounds) would say I am nowhere near overweight.

  • Ha! I did do two-a-days when I was training for Chicago back in 2000. I’ll probably have to do ’em again if I ever want to qualify for Boston… but I hear what you are saying.

    And I agree Mofo, the BMI calculator is very unforgiving. At 6-foot-1 you’d be overweight at 190. And at 5-foot-11 and a smidge I’d be overweight at 180. I actually got up to 185 after my knee surgery in 2002, and again in the winter of ’04/’05. (This morning weighed in at 167) I felt heavy, but not like I had “love handles” or anything. However I just take this as scientific proof that what we think of as an “average weight” is actually not healthy, and we should all really be into skinny people.

  • Tallman

    I also think those things don’t take into account having done any weight training or sports. I’m 6′ 4″ and 205 pounds. That puts me on the edge of being “overweight” with a BMI of 25.0, which is fair enough as I think I could stand to lose 5 pounds. But the crazy thing is that to get to “underweight” I would have to drop down to 152. I’d guess that most people would think I was “underweight” well before I dropped 50 pounds. When I lose five pounds or just wear slim fitted shirts, some people say I look skinny. Besides, I don’t understand how this table can be unisex. Inch for inch a guy should weigh a lot more than a woman because he should be carrying a lot more muscle and should have heavier bones (I think I’m right about the bones, but I’m just guessing on that).

  • tonya

    Two-a-days are obsessive. Not EVER re-arranging one’s schedule due to the class schedule at the gym is obsessive. Worrying about being away from one’s trainer for a week is obsessive. Having a passion for running (or biking, or something active) and incorporating it into one’s life in a balanced fashion (a daily run or a cycling vacation, for example) is not obsessive. All of this is in my opinion, of course.

    Laren, Derek is passionate not obssessive

  • ariana

    This blog has turned into Peyton Place. If you think girls don’t wanna date you now wait until they dive deep into the musings here on who one should and shouldn’t prefer for love and how you work out and love your muscles so it can get chicks. Love the Net’s ability to get people to reveal so much about themselves. But, really, in this case: Way too much information. And I say that as a friendly warning: do you really want to put it all out there like this? You’re an adult. This ain’t “The Real World” or “two-a-day” on MTV where the guys ARE really hot. My girlfriends who I show some of the postings here too think it’s all very nutso.
    But carry on, my wayward son.

  • Maybe my tone doesn’t quite come across as I’d like … I mean, this was just a post teasing Laren… and that last sentence of my 9:33 a.m. 8/24 comment was just baiting Flygirl, I had hoped to get an outraged opinion. I do not take myself too seriously here and if people do in fact want to marry guys with love handles I am not actually against that.

    P.S. – you think I’m not even “Real World hot”?? Doh!

    P.P.S. – But I was totally serious about lifting weights in part to look better for the ladies, do you and your girlfriends really think that is “nutso”? I certainly don’t think the women I am interested in do.

  • bex

    Hmmm. I liked your post. I think some people are taking it way too seriously. If people spent as much time exercising as they did watching TV, most of us would be a hell of a lot more fit.

  • Aww, a whole post just to tease me? I’m touched. 🙂

  • CL

    You can exercise WHILE you watch tv…

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