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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==History==<br />
[[File:Obesity & BMI.png|thumb|Obesity and BMI]]<br />
[[Adolphe Quetelet]], a Belgian [[astronomer]], mathematician, [[statistician]], and [[sociologist]], devised the basis of the BMI between 1830 and 1850 as he developed what he called "social physics". Quetelet himself never intended for the index, then called the Quetelet Index, to be used as a means of medical assessment. Instead, it was a component of his study of {{lang|fr|l'homme moyen}}, or the average man. Quetelet thought of the average man as a social ideal, and developed the body mass index as a means of discovering the socially ideal human person. According to Lars Grue and Arvid Heiberg in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, Quetelet's idealization of the average man would be elaborated upon by [[Francis Galton]] a decade later in the development of [[Eugenics]].</div>FuzzyBot