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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I suppose that's true. To be clear here she's not a little overweight. She's close to obese.
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More than 1 in 4 Canadian adults are classified as medically obese. You don't need to be bed-ridden to be obese. A BMI of 30 or greater is all that is required, assuming you're not a super athlete. For the average 5'4'' adult woman, that's anything over 175 pounds. I think there's a very large portion of the population that has a skewed vision of what it's like to be obese and assume it's much higher weight than it is.
I really don't want to come across as insensitive, but based on the medical definition of obese, she's well past it.
Of course I'm not commenting on her ability to do her job, but rather just the skewed perception we as a society have on obesity levels it would appear.