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- Your 'right' weight depends a lot on whose recommendations you
- choose. The major statistical studies on which most recommendations
- are based are the 1959 BUILD AND BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY (Society of
- Actuaries) and the BUILD STUDY 1979 (Society of Actuaries et al.).
- From these combined with insurance industry mortality data, the
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company created tables of "Desirable
- Weights for Ages 25-59" in 1959 and again in 1983. These are shown on
- the next screen.
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- The 1983 table is more liberal than the 1959 table, and some
- researchers were critical of one or both tables. The Gerontology
- Research Center did its own analysis of the insurance data and derived
- a unisex table which distinguishes desirable weights by age. This
- table is shown on the second screen following.
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- Other researchers have criticised all of the tables for failure
- to correct for the effects of smoking. Since smokers are
- statistically thinner but less healthy than non-smokers, failure to
- control for smoking has the effect of understating the benefits of
- less weight. A reanalysis of the 1979 BUILD STUDY by the resulting
- rules generates weights very similar to the 1959 Metropolitan
- recommendations.
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- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
- DESIRABLE WEIGHTS FOR AGES 25 to 59
-
- 1959 TABLE 1983 TABLE
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- Height Men Women Men Women
- 4'1O" 91-119 1OO-131
- 4'11" 93-122 1O1-134
- 5' 96-125 1O3-137
- 5'1" 1O7-136 99-128 123-145 1O5-14O
- 5'2" 11O-139 1O2-131 125-148 1O8-144
- 5'3" 113-143 1O5-135 127-151 111-148
- 5'4" 116-147 1O8-139 129-155 114-152
- 5'5" 119-151 111-143 131-159 117-156
- 5'6" 123-156 115-147 133-163 12O-16O
- 5'7" 127-161 119-151 135-167 123-164
- 5'8" 131-165 123-155 137-171 126-167
- 5'9" 135-169 127-16O 139-175 129-17O
- 5'1O" 139-174 131-165 141-179 132-173
- 5'11" 143-179 135-17O 144-183 135-176
- 6' 147-184 147-187
- 6'1" 151-189 15O-192
- 6'2" 155-194 153-197
- 6'3" 159-199 157-2O2
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- Gerontology Research Center
- RECOMMENDED WEIGHTS FOR BOTH SEXES (1985) BY AGE
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- HEIGHT 2O-29 yr. 3O-39 yr. 4O-49 yr. 5O-59 yr. 6O-69yr.
- 4'1O" 84-111 92-119 99-127 1O7-135 115-143
- 4'11" 87-115 95-123 1O3-131 111-139 119-147
- 5' 9O-119 98-127 1O7-135 115-144 124-152
- 5'1" 93-123 1O1-131 111-14O 119-149 128-157
- 5'2" 96-127 1O5-135 115-145 123-154 132-163
- 5'3" 99-131 1O8-14O 119-149 127-159 136-169
- 5'4" 1O2-135 112-145 123-154 131-164 14O-174
- 5'5" 1O5-14O 115-149 127-159 135-169 144-179
- 5'6" 1O9-144 119-154 131-164 139-174 148-184
- 5'7" 112-148 122-159 135-169 143-179 152-189
- 5'8" 116-153 126-163 139-174 147-185 157-195
- 5'9" 119-157 13O-168 143-179 151-19O 162-2O1
- 5'1O" 123-162 134-173 147-184 155-196 167-2O7
- 5'11" 126-167 137-178 151-19O 159-2O1 172-213
- 6' 129-171 141-183 155-195 163-2O7 177-219
- 6'1" 133-176 145-188 159-2O1 169-213 182-225
- 6'2" 137-181 149-194 163-2O6 174-219 187-232
- 6'3" 141-186 153-199 167-212 179-225 192-238
- 6'4" 144-191 157-2O5 171-218 184-231 197-244