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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by geomark on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:18PM (#25887865)
Does anyone know if the thresholds for being "overweight" and "underweight" have changed over time? I mean, with so many people getting heavier and heavier has the standard crept up so that "underweight" isn't even skinny anymore?
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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by david_allison on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:26PM (#25887958)
Typically BMI (mass/height^2), which hasn't changed.

Excluding the fact that average height has increased gradually over time.

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by projektfu on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:04PM (#25888266)
I believe they have changed the cut-offs because they noticed that cardiovascular issues started to occur at lower BMI than previously thought.
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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by david_allison on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:21PM (#25888391)
I didn't know this. Thanks!

It was lowered in July 1998 ("overweight" was reduced to 25 from men: 27 and women: 28)

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/04/us/us-to-widen-its-defini...

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/a-number-that-may-...

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