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Originally Posted by 1QuirkyKiwi
As important as it is to be healthy whatever weight and size a woman is and a healthy diet is part of this; gentics also play a greater part. My best friend is slender and is Diabetic along with this, has high Blood pressure. She's also slightly younger than I am.
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Well, yeah... I know plenty of thin people who are out of shape; our nation is out of shape. I also have a buddy who is very overweight yet a beast in track and field. All the skinny kids would see him and laugh until they realized he was one of the best and, well, faster than the majority of them.
Looks are deceiving. I appear to be in great shape because I am naturally slim and build muscle easily. Granted, I am far more fit than most people, but I am nowhere near where I used to be. I'd like to get back there. I don't think I could run a mile without stopping to walk unless a mugger was chasing me...
Also, some people store fat in obvious external places, while others store more closely packed fat between their organs. The former is more aesthetically troublesome but the latter is far more lethal.
I have known many women who went to obnoxious lengths to be skinny: crash diets, starvation, laxatives, purging, extreme cardio, sitting in a tub of ice cubes for an hour, diet pills, amphetamine abuse, and the list goes on. I dated a type 1 diabetic who purposely skipped insulin shots so she would stay skinny. It's a hell of a lot worse to abuse your body like that than it is to be a few pounds bigger!