Reply to post: Re: Moving the goals?

Lies, damn pies and obesity statistics: We're NOT a nation of fatties

Eddy Ito

Re: Moving the goals?

offer the public a simpler and infallible test of fatness

How about height divided by max girth about the belly. I'd think if that ratio is less than 1 it may indicate an excess of adipocytes, a ratio near 2 might be close to normal and 3 would be stick figure territory. Maybe the denominator should be an average of hips, gut and chest to account for where different people may carry weight.

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