@mekkaokereke Thanks a lot for this very insightful thread. 👍 I've never thought about this topic from that perspective. According to @wikipedia, the work of #Quetelet "played a key role in the origins of eugenics". The corresponding #BMI article states that "the BMI was always designed as a metric for European men. For women, and people of non-European origin, the scale is often biased". All this leaves me with one question in mind: Isn't there a different, non-biased metric to measure obesity?