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- From: lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib)
- Subject: Re: Bodyfat Reduction (GO FOR IT !)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:29:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.182958.24852@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.084239.4779@sei.cmu.edu> bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas) writes:
- >|>
- >|> My response to anyone who wants to drop down to 4-7% bodyfat is: GO
- >|> FOR IT !!! Think about it. If you were to grab a hand full of the fat
- >|> around your waste, ... what is that fat right there doing for you? It's
- >|> not cushioning any muscle tissue nor is it providing cushion protection
- >|> for the joints in your body from that location. It simply sits there and
- >|> does absolutely nothing for you. The mere fact that your body can have
- >|> enough excess fat to be able to grab denotes that you already have all
- >|> of the necesary fatty material in between the muscles and organs. The ex-
- >|> cess is excess.
- >
- >Many women (myself included) fail to menstruate when our body
- >fat percentage dips too low. This happened for me, when I
- >measured 6-7%. I'm at my healthiest when I am ~15%.
-
- Even money at least one wise guy sends you email that that sounds
- like a great method of birth control, which of course it isn't.
- Not too long ago I read that Olga Korbut, the Russian gymnast,
- went something like five years without menstruating, went to a
- doctor because she though something was wrong with her and found
- out she was pregnant. From what I've read you don't actually suffer
- any physical problems from not menstruating but that psychologically
- it can be tough for some.
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