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To: Paleo Conservative

The denominator should be height in meters squared, not cubed, according to the CDC.


51 posted on 08/30/2006 12:59:30 PM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
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To: RebelBanker
The denominator should be height in meters squared, not cubed, according to the CDC.

No wonder the BMI doesn't make any sense. I can't see why an index for body mass should just square the the height value. If you homogeneously scale up a body, the mass should be increased proportionally to the cube of the linear scaling factor.

62 posted on 08/30/2006 1:07:09 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (u)
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