Let's talk in this blog about the concept of ideal weights. First of all, The standard height and weight tables originated before World War II with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and were crudely associated with mortality. Although a fair amount of research has focused on height to weight ratios also known as body mass index, or BMI,... Read more
Let's look more closely at the cultural biology of eating. Imagine that you live in Japan a hundred years ago, in a family that can afford enough food. A pot of rice is cooking on the stove, and at the same time someone is cutting up the vegetables, and the relatively modest amounts of protein (either fish or poultry) into very small... Read more
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