'Obese' Label May Not Apply to Heavy Ex-NFL Players

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Published: July 30, 2012 2:43 PM
?-- Mary Elizabeth Dallas

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Standard definitions of obesity, which are based on height and weight, may not apply to former National Football League players and other groups with greater muscle mass, according to a new study.

"We found [body-mass index] to overestimate the number of obesity cases in a population of retired professional football athletes," Dr. Mark Hyman and colleagues from the University of California,...

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