Reply to EB Nelson and ME Van Elswyk

The widening BMI distribution in the United States

“…Importantly, the right-skewed BMI distribution may develop for a wide variety of reasons, ranging from basic biology to psychology to social phenomena such as assortative mating (4)(5)(6). Adipose tissue likely grows through a multiplicative rather than an additive process, resulting in a log-normal distribution with natural rightward…”