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The Body Mass Index

Maintenance Phase

Why Is It Critical to the State Rat to Define an Ideal Weight?

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The b m i, and sort of fatness generally, has always been presented to us as a proxy indicator. We're still use in a proxy indicator for underlying data when the underlying data is there. If we don't want people to be fat because they might have a bad like resting heart ratlink, we can take their fucking resting heart rate they're in a doctor's office. But then what's insane about using the b mi within the medical system is it, like, you can actually ask them, what are your life style factors? What is your genetic background that puts you at higher risk for hert disease. That also traces back to the entireucking history of the entire thing

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