"If you are in the pink and feeling well and getting a good amount of exercise and if your doctor is very happy with your lab values and other test results, then I am not sure there is any urgency to change your weight."—Dr. Mitchell Gail, a cancer institute scientist and author of a paper published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggesting that (shocker) what are currently considered 'ideal weights' may not be ideal after all.
[H/T to Shaker Susannah in Vermont. Kate's got a post on the article at her place.]
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