Commentary: What's past is prologue

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Abstract
It is news no longer that we have a waxing size and shape problem, which is beginning to offset health gains of recent decades.1 Need it have come to this? Knowledge of the problem of weight has been with us since Hippocrates time (who is reputed to have written ‘Corpulence is not only a disease itself, but the harbinger of others’), though it was not until the early 1940s, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company published its first tables of ‘ideal’ weights, based on the work of Louis Dublin, that a modern epidemiological approach was used to quantify the problem.2
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