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Over half of worldwide adults to be overweight or obese by 2050, warns study (www.france24.com)
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[โ€“] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

"Easy to collect" and "useful" aren't necessarily correlated. Waist size, for example, deals with a few of the problems with BMI like athletic builds (but not the general issue of correlating weight with health) and should be easier to collect as a tape measure is more portable than a scale. Still stuck with BMI though for some reason.