Overweight Americans Have Low Risk of Premature Death

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Via Pacific Standard, ‘Why do we use the term “normal weight” when talking about BMI? What’s presented as normal certainly isn’t the norm, and it may not even be what’s most healthy.’

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  1. That is interesting but I would include a couple of others statistical dimensions: Health care costs over the lifetime of an individual and quality of life. If all we do is adjust for weight increase over time, there´s no foreseeable limit and that doesn’t make sense to me.

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