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April 08, 2009

Visual BMI reference

I've posted (many, many, times) that the BMI is a pseudo-scientific scam, and is actively harming efforts to improve public health (by focusing on a mathematical formula which has no provable connection to actual human healthy weight). Kate Harding has posted a series of photos, showing what "normal", "overweight", "obese" people actually look like.

H/T to Marna Nightingale for the link.

Posted by Nicholas at April 8, 2009 10:08 AM
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