"They are establishing this as a medical concern at servenu level, and they are lowering these threshold for what it means to be over weight and obese," he says. "If you can lower the threshold of whose consider if youcan make more people medically overweight or medically obese, ye, you have a fucton more customers."
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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