Oklahoma City's War on Obesity

Re:Oklahoma City's War on Obesity by knodi123 on Thursday October 15, 2015 @12:12PM (#10393987)

What's with all the "stone" measurements? I'm used to seeing that in historical novels, but not in modern writing.

Is stone a regionally popular unit, or have I just been utterly oblivious to its modern commonality?

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Re:Oklahoma City's War on Obesity by toupeetape on Thursday October 15, 2015 @12:18PM (#10394027)

It is unused outside of the UK and Ireland where it is still the most commonly used unit for measuring the weight of a person.

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Re:Oklahoma City's War on Obesity by knodi123 on Thursday October 15, 2015 @02:53PM (#10395166)

Bizarre. They managed to adopt the metric system for weights, except when measuring humans. At least that mystery is solved, though- thanks!

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Re:Oklahoma City's War on Obesity by smacktoward on Thursday October 15, 2015 @01:12PM (#10394415)

And Mosaic appears to be a UK-based publication: http://mosaicscience.com/about-mosaic

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Re:Oklahoma City's War on Obesity by rce on Thursday October 15, 2015 @12:47PM (#10394226)

It's 14 lbs

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