What killed Terry Schiavo

[firecat]

...and why we should care and talk about that at least as much as we've yammered on about whether she should have been kept alive after it happened.

therealjae hits the nail on the head.

(Several folks on my flist posted this already, but I'm passing it on in case there are folks on mine who aren't on theirs.)

Comments

Re: Terry Schiavo

[firecat]

A weight that you can maintain without bulemia, for a start, I would think.

Re: Terry Schiavo

[ailbhe]

Yeah. But I keep hearing things like "125 lb" which - too late to convert now, but it sounds small to me. And I just know that people 6in taller than I am should be more than 1/2 stone heavier mostly. Is there a number that sounds "average"? Like 250 sounds "big" and 125 sounds "small"?

Re: Terry Schiavo

[firecat]

125 pounds = 8.93 stone

I personally would consider any adult 5' or over who weighed 125 lbs to be on the smallish side. I wouldn't hold an opinion that they were underweight or malnourished without further information.

According to US guidelines based on BMI, an adult 5'6" tall who weighs less than 115 lbs (8.2 stone) is underweight and one who weighs more than 155 (11 stone) is overweight. A lot of us fat activists think the range of "normal weights" is much too narrow and represents only the low end of a weight range in which it's possible to be healthy.