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These are data from a letter to the editor to JAMA,
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The Journal of the American Medical Association from 2000,
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showing the BMI, the body mass index,
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which I assume you are familiar with,
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the indication of normality of weight in adults.
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The BMIs of Miss America pageant winners over
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whatever this is, eighty years, going down,
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and there's variation of course,
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but the Miss Americas have gotten skinnier.
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There is a cultural trend.
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Now, precisely what this trend has to do
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with the development of eating disorders to nail it,