Comments about ‘Utahns fatter but not fattest’

I know I should have written earlier, but better late than never. Do you know where the BMI comes from? It was invented by a Belgian statician in 1850. Apparently he had a need to quantify everything, and this was his way of doing that with weight. The problem is that it does not take into consideration how much of that weight is fat, how much is muscle or how much is bone. So all people, men and women, who are 5"10", say, should weigh the same, whether they are bodybuilders, fashion models, sumo wrestlers, big-boned, small-bones, athletic, have cancer, etc., etc. It is ridiculous, and most of the medical profession knows there is more to ones weight than the BMI, which is just a quick, cop-out way of getting a round figure. By the way, I would like to know how the obese add so much to the cost of healthcare. One study I read when I Googled BMI said that normal weight people have a higher death rate than the obese. Can you quantify just what it is that makes obese people more expensive healthwise, especially including the vain who have the plastic surgery?