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As in "once I can fit through the Spreuerhofstrasse Spalt I'll be down to my desirable weight".
After an exhaustive study Metropolitan Life has reached the conclusion that "desirable" weight is as much as 20 pounds under "average" weight.
"Dublin essentially looked at his data and just arbitrarily decided that he would take the desirable weight for people who were aged 25 and apply it to everyone".
Edward A. Lew, chief actuary & statistician, said the Metropolitan's "desirable" weight is based on an individual's trunk length, wrist & ankle size, chest breadth, & hip width.
Half of all American men in their 30's, have been found to be at least 10% above "desirable" weight, & about one fourth of them have been found to be 20% above it.
Though the range of recommended weight may seem wide, and the numbers high, the guidelines now talk in terms of "healthy weight" rather than "desirable weight," shifting the emphasis from appearance to health.
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Still, the index is so ingrained in our society that it does not stop many people from obsessively trying to achieve an ideal weight, nor does it halt athletic coaches from riding athletes to achieve a desirable weight-height ratio.
The desirable weight-to-axle power ratio for agricultural tractors is determined by the necessity for the optimum utilisation of the available axle power to produce the required drawbar pull at a preselected slip.
In the 1985 version, desirable weights for men and women were adapted from a 1959 table developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; the company's table was based on the weights of policy holders.
The optimistic view evaluates each DMU with a set of the most desirable weights; the efficiencies measured by the optimistic approach are called optimistic efficiencies.
Women generally gain even more". Reubin Andres, clinical director of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute of Aging, analyzed insurance data and concluded this year that desirable weights increase with age.
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