aug 1, 1974 - Ancel Keys supports BMI

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Ancel Keys supports BMI as "best proxy for body fat % in adults"

"In 1972, Keys et al[16] severely criticized the validity of Metropolitan Life Insurance published data per se, and the then-published tables of desirable weight for height, as well as the tables used to define people who were underweight or overweight.7 (The pejorative term “obese” was rarely used in that era.) Instead, Keys et al, using better documented weight for height data, popularized the Quetelet Index in population-based studies. They referred to it as the body mass index (BMI). Thus, Quetelet Index = body weight (kilograms) divided by height squared (meters) = BMI."

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890841/

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