Word: reubin
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...subject of a growing dispute since 1983, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. updated its charts on desirable weight. The poundage associated with the lowest death rates, the insurance firm found, had risen by as much as 14 Ibs. over such weights in its 1959 tables. Now Dr. Reubin Andres, clinical director of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on Aging, has added more fat to the fire. Using the same data (from 4.2 million people charted by 25 insurance companies over two decades), Andres has concluded that people in their 20s should weigh less than Metropolitan Life...