By today’s body mass index (BMI), which measures body fat as a ratio between height and weight, the 12th president’s BMI of 30.2 would have barely qualified him as obese (obesity is defined as a BMI or 30 or more). He was part of a string of prominent politicians at the time who seemed to celebrate heft as a sign of stability, reliability and security.
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