Body Mass, Cholesterol, etc.

Last week my company announced that we could qualify for a $15 weekly discount ($780 each year) on our health premiums if we qualified for it. How do you qualify for such a thing? You have to be generally healthy and be a non-smoker and have good cholesterol levels.

So Nursy Nurserson shows up at work today to give everyone their screening. She takes my weight and height and then puts this swab-stick in my mouth that is supposed to test for cigarette smoke or nicotine...who knows. She also took my blood pressure, which turned out to be higher than I have ever seen it (132/83). I suspect some sort of fraud because MANY people in the office had similarly high results. But that will be another blog.

I am 6'2" and weigh 190 pounds or 1.88 meters and 86.18 kg, if you are metrically inclined. I am, by anybody's definition, a skinny dude. That said, according to the BMI index, I am on the high end of "IDEAL", and have crossed over from a healthy blood pressure to "pre-hypertensive". In fact, according to the BMI index, if I gained just 5 pounds, I would be classified as overweight.



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Are you freaking kidding me??? Have they SEEN me??? And my boss, Rick, turned out to be on the higher side of "overweight". This is the dude who did a half-triathlon last year and runs like 30 miles each week.

Give. Me. A. Break.