The cut off for overweight in the seventies is 27 point eight for men. Now i can only weigh a hundred and 74 pounds before i'm overweighed, right? These are really significant changes. We're in this moment where ideal weights quo are fully being invented. And again, they're being defined, not relative to health risks, but relative to other people. I so space makes the biggest american like, must be at higher health risk. There's no diversity within that group. That's right. It is the largest Americans must be at the greatest health risk. And they are. Because i don't like that they're so rigt rit what happens is that in
The BMI is EVERYWHERE. But is it scientific or scientif-ish? While many Americans think of the body mass index as an objective measure of health, its history reveals a more complicated story. This week, Mike and Aubrey tackle the first in a two-part series about the BMI and the “Obesity Epidemic.” Along the way they visit 18th century Belgium, learn a gross new acronym and dissect Dracula's facial features.
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