What is the ideal body weight?

This paper attempts to answer five questions. (1) How should we best measure overweight? Although life insurance tables and relative weights have been used, I propose that body mass index (BMI; wt/ht2) is the preferred method. It is currently used in most epidemiologic studies and can be used in clinical evaluation of individual patients. (2) What is a healthy body weight? A healthy body weight can be defined from normative population data as...