Ideal body weight
What is an ideal body weight? How could it be determined? One approach to determine ideal body weight is to use one's personal opinion. But the problem is that everyone's opinion is subjective. As the Dude says in the Big Lebowski: "That's just, like, your opinion, man." As an engineer and scientist, I would prefer an approach that has more scientific rigor and quantifiable numbers. So the next reasonable approach to determine an ideal body weight would be to statistically measure some objective or goal such as minimizing mortality in a population. One can then also measure potentially relevant factors such as a person's height, weight, and frame size. In this way, one might determine statistical correlations between the the goal and the other factors. Of course, correlation does not imply causation. Nonetheless, my personal takeaway could be that if I can control my weight, and I am reasonably near the body weight that minimizes statistical risk, then