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> Perhaps, but how many people work (or play) that hard?  In our society I
> would guess that on most it was fat.
> 

To add an extra 25 or 30 pounds in muscle weight does take quite a bit of 
work or play,  but not adding 10 pounds.  That happens with just some running 
or 
workout in the gym or on a contraption.  It's that ten pounds that could put 
a 
significant number of people from the 'normal' category to the 'overweight' 
category.  People have pointed out that using that ridiculous chart many top 
athletes in top condition are overweight and some of them obese.

The thing is, and why it bears repeating, in so many of these studies the 
activity level of the participants is ignored as if it didn't exist.  In this 
particular study they adjusted the stats for age, smoking, alcohol ..... but 
totally ignored muscle mass and activity level which makes the study more or 
less 
meaningless.


James