Looking at the BMI

Flickr has an extremely interesting photo pool, the Illustrated BMI, showing pictures of people along side their weight, height and BMI. It's very interesting to see how thin the margin is between normal, overweight and obese.

Over 30 BMI? No Soup for You!

Mississippi House Bill #282 proposes banning all obese people from eating in public. While the criteria for determining which people are obese have not been set, some have assumed that it will be based on BMI.

For further reading, there is a heated debate about this topic on Metafilter.