Thin-Obese: The New Panic

I consume health studies almost as voraciously as I consume . . .food. The Wall Street Journal's piece on the new, as-yet-not-so-quantifiable problem of the thin-obese (you're of normal weight but secretly, underneath it all, have the wrong body mass index or some such) members of our society irked me. Because I am undoubtedly one of them, and also because I because am surely a member of another group that was recently studied, the women-who-worry-too-much-about their-health.

The researchers described women who voraciously read health studies and stress out needlessly over precisely how many blueberries they need to eat every day. (I aimfor a half-cup, p.s.) The stress, of course, is bad for these womens' health.

The only place, it seems, that one can find out whether one is thin-obese, is a gym. Which is sort of like asking a tree man whether your tree needs pruning: What idiot tree man would say no? "No ma'am, you're perfectly healthy. You don't need our gym!"

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