Diet >>> Blood Pressure

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Hi JW:

I would like to quote an excerpt from what you said in your post

#13417 to reinforce my point about your WC/H ratio:

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> ................................. are trying to deal with a

> metabolic problem that probably all of us have, some more, some less

I entirely agree that we all have a 'metabolic problem' to some

degree or other, " some more, some less " as you said. In other words,

I am confident that EVERY ONE OF US is susceptible. I suggest the

degree to which each of us EXHIBITS that problem depends on HOW MUCH

WE EAT, and that it is that - how much we eat - that causes our

resulting physiological data, like WC/H, BMI, WBC, BP, BF% and LDL-C

etc. etc..

Take the example of the guy who decided he wanted to 'do a number' on

Mcs by eating 5000 calories a day of their food for a month.

He was (comparatively) healthy before he started. After a month he

was demonstrably a lot less healthy. Of course he wanted to blame

that on Mcs food. But he proved nothing of the kind. Eating

5000 calories a day of **anything** for a month straight while

avoiding exercise, as he did, is likely to make anyone thoroughly

unhealthy.

Had he instead eaten a 40% restricted number of calories of Mcs

food for thirty days he might have started to show benefits of CR

(although I do not doubt that Mcs' fare is deficient in some

key nutrients, but the signs of that would likely not show up in just

one month).

So I believe that in your case your physiological data are simply

evidence that you are eating too many calories. Just like the

TV 'documentary' reporter was - but clearly not in so extreme a

fashion as he was. If the reporter were now to restrict his calories

to 40% below maintenance level, his signs of ill health will, almost

certainly, promptly disappear.

I believe that if you continue to restict your calories to a level a

little below what you are burning off each day your 'signs of ill

health' (BP) will disappear also.

If you take another look at the data in Francesca's WC/H table in the

database, your numbers do stick out from the crowd. Both your WC/H

and BMI are way higher than any others on that list. And some on

that list are not especially slim! Naturally, I may be mistaken.

But to me the conclusion seems obvious. You are still eating far too

much! My bet is that your WC/H ratio (as well as all the others)

will tell you when you are not.

Hope this is helpful. It is meant to be!

Rodney.