Originally Posted by Simon Appleton
Nah, CDC Atlanta are the real deal. You know, helping Dustin Hoffman save the mankind from a deadly monkey virus in Outbreak etc.?
Seriously, I have a great respect for them ever since I was doing postdoc research in Kenya in 1992, which involved weighing school kids. I needed to convert their weights into z-scores that standardised for age and heard CDC had made some software to do this easily. Hence I, a Brit alone in a backwater African university, wrote them a letter . A week or so later, they sent me the program on a floppy free of charge, along with a manual. ~:cheers:
As to your weight, I guess these things vary from person to person, but I heard a BMI of 20 was about the ideal for an athlete. When I was slipping below that in my younger days of working out in a gym, my instructor warned me not to lose any more weight.