I’ve heard older family members say “I weighed 93 pounds on my wedding day”, and then you see a picture of them and they were slim but healthy looking (meanwhile, if you plug in their BMI, it shows that the number is so dangerously underweight).
Are those family members exaggerating, or has there been a significant change to body composition/muscle mass in people over the past 50+ years (based on diet, lifestyle)?
Semi related: could this be the origin of some men thinking that all “thin” women weigh 120 pounds (regardless of height)?
Edit: NOT talking about obesity, more like how can a person have been 93 pounds in 1960 but have an identical looking body to someone who is 130 pounds today?
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I did a strict diet in 2019. I got down to 63kg. This was about my high school weight. At 173cm I had a BMI of 21 or right in the middle of what is considered normal weight. In 1980 I was a normal if slightly skinny kid. I think that the whole world has just forgotten what normal even looks like.
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