00:00 — Introduction
00:47 — An Astronomer's Formula
02:06 — 29 Million People Overnight
03:19 — What It Can't Tell You
04:38 — Wrap Up
Sources:
- PMC / National Library of Medicine - The History and Faults of the Body Mass Index and Where to Look Next: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10693914/
- Health Service Navigator - History of Body Mass Index (BMI) Measurement: https://www.myhsn.co.uk/top-tip/history-of-body-mass-index-bmi-measurement/
- CalculateMyBMI - The Complete History of BMI: From Quetelet to Modern Medicine (1832-2026): https://calculatemybmi.net/blog/bmi-history/
- GoWin Tools - History of BMI: Why It Was Invented and Its Limitations: https://gowin.tools/blog/history-of-bmi/
- CV Wellbeing - Body Mass Index: Flaws & Myths of BMI: https://www.cvwellbeing.com/blog/body-mass-index-scales
- Conversable Economist - Origins of the Body Mass Index: https://conversableeconomist.com/2020/08/21/origins-of-the-body-mass-index/
- Wikipedia - Adolphe Quetelet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet
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