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by jbms 1370 days ago
Weight: 3D measurement

Height: 1D measurement

Better to use Waist circumference, since it's a 2D measurement, combined with one of the others if you want a linear scale. The Japanese fat tax uses waist measurement alone.

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Technically, circumference is a 1D measurement.

Waist circumference is a good metric for a different reason, because belly fat is the most dangerous type of fat (specifically visceral fat, which is stored between the inner organs and next to impossible to measure without lab-grade equipment, but the idea is that it correlates with circumference).

Never heard of a fat tax, but it sounds dystopian.