Keith's answer to previous thread:
Here's an idea. Could it be that Kwasniewski's "Optimal Diet" takes us down
to our optimal weight? And that the optimal weight for Homo sapiens has a
few kilos more body fat than contemporary American ideals? That is, the
Optimal Diet won't take you down any further simply because further is not
optimal.

It may be that if Kwasniewski examined you he would pinch that small roll of
fat around your tummy admiringly and ask where on earth you got the crazy
idea you had to lose another 20 lb.

Keith

Keith-
I have wondered, too, since we have discovered that so much of what passes
for generally accepted medical science (example is cholesterol heart disease
dogma) is nonsense, why we accept what is the best weight foisted upon us
from these same people.  What is the true scientific basis for stating that
all women of a given height must weigh within a narrow range to be at
optimal weight?

That being said I think I probably weigh 10 to 20 pounds more than I would
as a paleo person because I am probably more sedentary and because of the
tremendous availability of food without a lot of exertion to obtain it.  I
am average for my height and age, and at 57 I no longer worry over being
skinny.  It took me years and years to free myself from the enslavement of
the Twiggy mentality of beauty popular when I was a preteen and teen.  I
believe strong, Paleo style women are not emaciated little twigs  :)  Paula
H.