Scaling of human body mass with height: the Body Mass Index revisited

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2009-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/0910.5834v1

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Biological Physics

6 pages, to appear in J. Biomechanics

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We adapt a biomechanical argument of Rashevsky, which places limits on the stress experienced by a torso supported by the legs, to deduce that body mass $m$ of growing children should scale as the $p$th power of height $h$ with $7/3

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