In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> I watched a bit of Cooking For Real yesterday and Sunny Anderson was
> going to prepare a special dish with the help of here "running buddy" .
> I have watched the show a few times. She does interesting dishes, seems
> comfortable in the kitchen and in front of the camera, She is well
> spoken and really good looking...... but a runner???????/ Not with that
> ass and those thunder thighs.

My daughter played soccer in her younger days. There was a girl on her
team with truly massive thighs. I don't remember about her rear, but
there is a reason why the gluteus maximus are the largest muscles in the
body. This girl had a lot of weight to run around. She was by far the
fastest on the team, and generally made half the goals in the game. She
only made half because she only played offense half the game. The other
half she played goalie, and the other teams seldom scored when she was
the goalkeeper. It's true that she had to ask the coach to pull her out
two or three times during the half she played offense, as after she had
run up and down the field a few times she was exhausted.

Maybe Sunny Anderson doesn't currently have the build to run marathons,
but I don't know of any reason why she couldn't do some running with a
friend.

There has been some disturbing talk on this group about weight and BMIs.
Although I think weight control is important, different people have
different body types, and just looking at BMI doesn't give the whole
picture.

I sometimes wonder what would happen if you looked at BMIs of
professional football players in the US. I'll bet some of them would be
classified as "morbidly obese", even though their weight is muscle
rather than fat. Not that being a professional football player is all
that healthy, but it's injuries rather than fat that are the hazard.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA