You can bet big money that these community health commissars will wreak havoc with that cockamamie “BMI index,” one of the stupidest one-size-fits-all bureaucratic rules-of-thumb ever devised. The same goes for that idiotic “Food Pyramid.”

Many of us who have included strength-building exercises over the years as part of our conscientious health maintenance efforts would flunk the BMI index test because of our added muscle mass. As a matter of fact, while it may be true that we have more overweight and obese people than ever, it’s also true that there are more “buff” and athletically massive individuals in proportion to the population than ever. One need only look at WWII newsreels and compare them to modern combat footage and see how much beefier many of today’s combat soldiers are compared to their grandparents. I would not be surprised if those among us who carry additional muscle mass are not lumped into the “overweight” statistics touted by alarmists.

And have you looked at actuary tables on height-to-weight ratios? They can only be achieved by going on war-zone type austerity diets, and I’m not kidding or exaggerating. Japan has a stringent requirement that all men not exceed 35 inches in waistline. I’m sure that Sumo wrestlers are exempt, but some of the bigger Japanese men — bigger as a result of the more abundant diets of modern Japan — are having a very hard time meeting the 35 inch standard as they reach late middle age.