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From: wildstar@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Gaining weight
Message-ID: <904@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 14:53:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 14:53:46 1985
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Reply-To: wildstar@nmtvax.UUCP (Andrew Fine)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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Summary: 


     From what I heard on the reports concerning health insurance, a person
is better off underweight than overweight. Anyone who is approximately 5
to 10 percent underweight for height, build, and bodytype ( which is usually
the case for ectomorphs ) has a substantially lesser risk of heart and 
artery disease than even people of average weight.  This does not mean to say
that being underweight is always good, just only slightly so for many people.

My advice to the gentleman who posted the original message to just simply eat
as much or as little as feels natural, however, make sure that the meals are
*balanced*.  That means at least... calories: about 15 per pound ideal weight
per day, minimum... protein: unless you are a vegetarian, that means meat,
eggs, milk, cheese, fish, or poultry.  If you don't have time to cook, there
are people you can pay to prepare home-cooked meals for you. Stay on the 
vitamins, but do not "megadose". And be sure to have vegetables: especially
squashes, sweet potatoes, and members of the cabbage family.

I don't pretend to be a doctor, but having weight problems in the opposite
direction ( 10 to 20 percent over ), I have some knowledge of nutrition that
has paid off.

Andrew Jonathan Fine