New weight charts are lenient too much so, say some doctors
Dieters ate their desserts with a little less guilt last week. Thanks to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., women who are 5 ft. 2 in. and tip the scales at 140 could consider their weights to be right on target, as could 180-lb. men who measure 5 ft. 10 in. For the first time since 1959, the giant insurance company revised its widely used height-weight guidelines, moving them upward by as much as ten to 15 lbs. in the case of short men and...
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