In fact her entire adult life is a testimony to how utterly abnormal it is for her to weigh less than that. It's actually hard to get one's mind around how crazy it is to claim that it would be "normal" for Oprah Winfrey to weigh less than 155 pounds. (Anyone interested in a detailed debunking of this destructive nonsense can consult any of a host of recent academic publications, including books such as Eric Oliver's "Fat Politics," Sander Gilman's "Fat," Michael Gard's and Jan Wright's "The Obesity Epidemic," and my own "The Obesity Myth"). Indeed, it's every bit as bizarrely unscientific as declaring that a "normal" height is between 5-6 and 5-9. The notion that it's "normal" for adults to have a body mass index between 18.5 and 24.9 is a classic piece of social insanity. The good news - and this really can't be stated strongly enough - is that this definition is completely fraudulent. The bad news is that it is quite literally impossible for the large majority of Americans to maintain the government's definition of a normal weight. The event featured an address by Paul Campos, professor of law, University of Colorado Law School, and author of 'The Obesity Myth' and commentary by paneli. In regard to that question, there's bad news and good news.
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