For Debate . . . Is there an ideal body weight ?
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The concept of ideal weight standards disregarding age is said to have been developed by the late Dr Louis Dublin, once chief actuary of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.' This body published tables of "desirable weight" for health education in the early 1940s. Subsequently, the build and blood pressure study, conducted by the Society of Actuaries,4 resulted in the creation of revised weight tables, introducing the concept of "frame size," which was not based on measurement of skeletal dimensions but arbitrarily divided the distribution of relative weights on the assumption that skeletal size was associated with a person's position in that distribution. The suggested weights were derived from data
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