What killed Terry Schiavo
4 Apr 2005 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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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.)
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.)
Re: Terry Schiavo
Date: 5 Apr 2005 12:23 am (UTC)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.