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Old 22nd August 2007 | 16:20
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Dan Winterland
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Most of the victorious England rugby world cup squad were clinically obese - according to BMI. I think I read somewhere that it was invented by a Belgian anthropologist in the 1920s to determine whether a population was undernourished or not. It wasn't designed to victimise individuals!

DW (BMI 27.4)
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