why is the BMI cutoff for being overweight 23 for Asians instead of 25 for everyone else?

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why is the BMI cutoff for being overweight 23 for Asians instead of 25 for everyone else?

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I also wasn’t aware of this either. Japan’s ministry of health and labor welfare also cites 25 as the threshold for overweight.

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