Carson Scott Alan
University of Texas, Permian Basin, 4901 East University, Odessa, TX 79762, USA.
Econ Hum Biol. 2007 Mar;5(1):37-47. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2006.06.003. Epub 2006 Sep 22.
No research has been done on the body mass index values of the 19th-century Mexican population. This paper introduces a new data source of 19th-century Mexican male inmates in American prisons and finds that the majority of Mexican body mass was in the normal range (18.5-24.9). Few Mexicans were underweight or obese by modern standards. Body mass varied little (0-0.9 units) by occupations possibly because criminals probably came from the lower end of the socioeconomic distribution; however, it did vary with crimes for which inmates were incarcerated.
尚未对19世纪墨西哥人口的体重指数值进行研究。本文引入了一个关于19世纪美国监狱中墨西哥男性囚犯的新数据源，并发现大多数墨西哥人的体重处于正常范围（18.5 - 24.9）。按照现代标准，很少有墨西哥人体重过轻或肥胖。不同职业的墨西哥人体重差异很小（0 - 0.9个单位），这可能是因为罪犯可能来自社会经济分布的低端；然而，体重确实因囚犯被监禁的罪行而有所不同。
