Detail from an Ancient Greek red figure amphora of Theseus killing Procrustes, Louvre Museum. Source: Wikimediacommons.org/Public Domain Procrustes (literally the ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has lots of critics, but is still widely used by dieters and health care providers; discovered in 1832 this ratio was supposed to be part of the most objective analysis of ...

Dr. Sadeep Shrestha, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, was recently awarded the Quetelet Endowed Professorship in Public Health. This endowment pays tribute to Lambert Adolphe Quetelet for his ...

Roughly 200 years ago, a Belgian mathematician and statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, seeking to characterize a “normal man,” observed that adults’ body weight in kilograms is roughly proportional ...