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>Many people have looked at those charts saying the ideal weight for a 5'8"
>person is 122 to 164 and dismissed it as impractical. Someone doing much
>vigorous work isn't going to be able to be that light. The study suggests
that the
>ideal weight is a FEW pounds heavier than the chart says, the 5'8" person
>weighing a bit more than 122 up to 175 or so. And one possible
explanation is
>that vigorous people will naturally be carrying round some muscle and
muscle is
>heavy, almost twice as heavy as fat.
Perhaps, but how many people work (or play) that hard? In our society I
would guess that on most it was fat.