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- From: tlindgre@cvbnet.prime.com (Terence Lindgren x5360 5-2)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness,soc.women
- Subject: Re: Bodyfat Reduction (GO FOR IT !)
- Message-ID: <4490@cvbnetPrime.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:32:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.182958.24852@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.182958.24852@cbnews.cb.att.com>, lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:
- |> 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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- I have read quite the opposite. Osteoperosis can occur.
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- terence
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