If this is based on BMI, I couldn't care less. It's a terrible metric which is not fit for its purpose. "Obesity is defined as body mass index (BMI) at or abov

If this is based on BMI, I couldn't care less. It's a terrible metric which is not fit for its purpose. "Obesity is defined as body mass index (BMI) at or above the sex- and age-specific 95th percentile BMI (based on the variable BMXBMI) using cutoff points from the 2000 CDC growth charts for the United States: Methods and development. NCHS. Vital Health Stat 11(246). 2002. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_11/sr11_246.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_11/sr11_246.pdf. Excludes pregnant girls." Almost everyone I know is "overweight" by this metric, which, as it turns out, means they are healthier (in terms of less likely to die from any-cause overall) than their thinner peers. Show me the bell curve of longevity versus body-fat percentage, and what percentage of Americans are 1-sigma past the right side of the peak of that curve. Even body shape, for example, is a much better indicator of all-cause mortality than BMI. E.g. http://absi-calc.appspot.com/ http://absi-calc.appspot.com/