At 10:36 1998-03-10 -0800, you wrote:
> I tend to think that everyone's ideal weight is as individual as every
>one! My mother was "overweight" since she was about 2 also. She is
>considered obese, but she's 80 years old now, has led an active life and
>is still going strong. Maybe your weight (and my mother's) is close to
>ideal for you.
In his study of people on the island Kitava in the Trobriands,
<http://www.panix.com/~paleodiet/lindeberg/>
who probably have a more "paleo" diet than any one of us can acheive,
Staffan Lindeberg found that no one at all is obese or even a little
on the fatty side, and people loose weight after the 30's.
So being "overweight" is probably never a personal ideal.
- Hans