Garn S M
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-0406, USA.
Am J Clin Nutr. 1996 Mar;63(3 Suppl):412S-414S. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/63.3.412.
Any discussion of healthy weight necessarily starts with body composition and its relation to long-term mortality and morbidity and then goes on to consider the limited range of ages for which we have epidemiologic data, the time span involved, the criteria used to define "healthy," and the possibility that a weight that is advantageous with respect to one outcome criterion may be disadvantageous for another. One may therefore ask, weight of what? healthy weight for whom? by what criteria? and question whether a simple weight-for-height ratio is sufficiently effective for the task.
任何关于健康体重的讨论都必然始于身体组成及其与长期死亡率和发病率的关系，然后进而考虑我们拥有流行病学数据的有限年龄范围、所涉及的时间跨度、用于定义“健康”的标准，以及就一个结果标准而言有利的体重可能对另一个标准不利的可能性。因此，有人可能会问，什么的体重？对谁而言的健康体重？依据什么标准？并质疑简单的身高体重比对于这项任务是否足够有效。
