Overweight people?

i_wanna_be_Brown
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:16:48 +0000

going by BMI I would guess at most 1 out of the nearly 150 kids in my class would hit the obese (30+) range but I also know they run several miles a day so while they may look obese, they probably aren’t. With probably 10 in the overweight range (25-29.9). Also of note is that when we started there was 1 kid who definitely was in the obese range but has lost 75lbs since starting med school, another student has lost 50+ and I myself gained weight and then lost a bunch also (much harder to maintain a healthy lifestyle when you’re no longer a D1 athlete forced to exercise 6 days a week). I’m pretty sure that med students are statistically significantly more healthy than average.

None of this answers the real question: are unhealthy students at a disadvantage or are students interested in health more likely to be interested in their own health? My gut says it’s the latter.