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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

BMI was developed by the insurance companies to classify people as obese to increase their premiums.

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sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So, this isn’t true, but the history is more interesting than I thought: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10693914/

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- MuskyMelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  In the 1950s, Louis I. Dublin (1882-1969), statistician and vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, established tables of normal weights for clients, after the company noted that more and more claims were coming from their obese policyholders [1].
  
  They may not have created it but they definitely weaponized it.
  
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