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Among all the other things police are being called these days, the latest is “fat”

From the WSJ, obesity by occupation:

MK-CR474A_WEIGH_9U_20141216183010Police are at the top. At the bottom are economists. It’s kind of perfect.

The charitable interpretation: all that muscle mass in police is edging them up the BMI scale. I’m sympathetic, since even in my leanest and most athletic years I was thickset enough to be obese on the crude BMI scale. I guess that means I’m pulling the economist average up. But I’m willing to bet donuts play a more significant role.

 

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