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hammock
on Jan 4, 2023
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‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned res...
For those less familiar with BMI, each point of BMI for a man is about 7 pounds. So 34-->23 BMI = -77 lbs. 31-->26 BMI = -35 lbs
voisin
on Jan 4, 2023
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It depends on height, so how can you say that?
gretch
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Probably because height is normally distributed and it’s easy to predict someone’s height within a range.
I’d bet a lot of money the person in the story is not 6 foot 5 inches
0xB31B1B
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I’m 6 4 though, so not far off
titanomachy
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In that case 8 pounds per point of BMI, so it’s still a reasonable approximation.
nindalf
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It’s an approximation
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