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What is the definition or description of: obesity?
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BMI more than 25: Obesity can be described by a bmi greater than 25.
Answered 6/11/2017
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Insurance Driven Def: The definition started with Louis Israel Dublin, chief statistician of the Metropolitan life insurance company, in the early 1940s, as a BMI >25 (definitely >30) for people in their 20's based on retrospective observational life insurance data of the age at which people died later in life. This was subsequently adopted by the medical disease industry. However, BMI is not individually that reliable
Answered 11/13/2016
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