[CQ-Contest] Contesting and Health

[steve.root at culligan4water.com]

BMI is over rated. At the age of 60 I'm 6 foot tall and 210 pounds which works out to a BMI of 28.4. I work in a warehouse and spend the whole day on my feet hauling around 80# bags of salt and 5 gallon bottles of water. I'm in better shape now that I was 30 years ago, even though my BMI is higher. 

My suggestion is to walk. Humans are built to walk, it's something we do well. 

73 Steve K0SR 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Tippett [mailto:btippett at alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 06:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesting and Health

>As a group, we've become a bunch of old fat guys who don't get enough exercise,and far too many of us can be seen being wheeled around the aisles ofhamfests on "mobility scooters."It truly breaks my heart so see so many friends heading for an earlier thannecessary grave. Think about this: "There Are Old People and Fat People,But Few Old Fat People"https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/08/there-are-old-people-and-fat-people-but-few-old-fat-people.phpBut you're not fat? If your Body Mass Index is >25, you're officiallyoverweight and classified as obese if >30:http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htmWe're literally eating and lounging ourselves into an early grave orensuring a poor quality of life in later years than necessary. So many ofour nation's chronic health problems (e.g. heart disease, diabetes, jointpain, etc) could be prevented by simple changes in our exercise and eatinghabits, as simple as briskly walking 20 minutes a day and eliminatingsugar/carbs from our diets (and BTW diet colas are NOT good for you).As we give thanks to God today for our health, let's resolve to change ourhabits before we become another unnecessary statistic.73 & Happy Thanksgiving,Bill W4ZV_______________________________________________CQ-Contest mailing listCQ-Contest at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contes