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References
- Understanding Nutrition, by Whitney and Rolfes. Uses NHANES II classification.
- National Population Health Survey 1996/1997. (Canadian data n=77,403 age & sex stratified.)
- Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. June 17, 1998
- Nutrition Canada, Anthropometry Report 1980 of data from Nutrition-Canada Survey 1971. (n=13,691)
- Department of Health and Human Services Consensus Conference on Obesity, April,1 1992
- NHANES III. 1988-1994 data from USA.
- World Health Organization. Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHO consultation on obesity. World Health Organization. Geneva, 1998.
- McDowell A, Engel A, Massey J, Maurer K. Plan and operation of the second National Health and Nutrition Survey, 1976-80.
- Kuczmarski RJ, Flegal KM. Criteria for definition of overweight in transiation: background and recommendations for the United States. Am J Clin Nutr 2000; 72:1075-1081.
- Standards Committee, American Society of Obesity Surgery; Obesity Surgery. Dec. 1997; 7:523
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You didn’t me tion whether having a more muscled body makes a difference in the BMI. Does lean tissue calculate the same as fat?