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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am on the lighter side of normal but have health issues, such as high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol/triglycerides that decrease when I lose weight and exercise to reach a BMI that’s below normal. I am also very fine boned and a petite Asian, and I believe that the BMI scale just doesn’t fit my profile. I feel as I’m overweight and going back to normal weight. Normal for me.

So that also means calorie counts are off too. A healthy daily intake for me is 900 calories or so. I gain weight when I eat more.

I LOVE food. I just mustn’t eat a lot of it. 
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There are numerous studies out there showing that negative health effects begin at lower BMIs for Asians than for white people.  My BMR isn’t quite as low as yours, but yes, I had high BP and cholesterol and borderline blood sugars at higher side of normal BMI.  At technically slightly underweight, all that disappeared.  For me, health = quality of life, which means watching what I eat and exercising.  [/quote]

PP you responded to. Yes! I totally agree with you, and do believe that being healthy IS having quality of life. I am concerned about my long-term health, and wish to not only reduce the obvious risk of cardiac issues, stroke and diabetes, but also dementia and cancer, which have been linked to poor nutrition and being overweight. My two Japanese grandparents ate poorly and had visible memory loss in their 60s, and had full blown dementia in their 70s. My father saw the writing on the wall, started to eat better in his 50s, and pushed back the memory loss to his 70s. If I eat better and exercise more at an earlier age, and given my mother's better genes in that regard, I really hope to be much older than my father by the time dementia rears its ugly head, if it ever does. Health issues are not only physically restrictive and potentially life-threatening, they're also costly. I don't want to pay for an aide then a specialized nursing home earlier than I can help it.

So it's all about the long-term for me.[/quote]

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