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 mean yeah, someone who weighed 93 pounds was either very short or extremely underweight, or a teenager where being that underweight isn’t as extreme.
People were quite a bit thinner 50 years ago (BMI has increased 17% since 1972). Then the average American was slightly overweight. Today, the average American is obese.
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