Meet Todd. He's perfectly average in every way. He's also fake-as-hell.
According to The Atlantic:
His proportions are based on averages from CDC anthropometric data. As a U.S. male age 30 to 39, his body mass index (BMI) is 29; just one shy of the medical definition of obese. At five-feet-nine-inches tall, his waist is 39 inches.Crazy!
As for the guys standing to the right of Todd in the image at the top? Those guys are also named Todd. But those Todds represent the average male in Japan, Netherlands, and France. The others' BMIs, based on data from each country's national health centers, are 23.7, 25.2, and 25.6.
They all look perfectly fine to me, with the exception of their super creeptastic faces, and I think it's interesting that the average American male is one BMI point short of obese, particularly since Todd looks so, well, average. Maybe this speaks more to the flawed nature of the BMI than it does to the health of American men?
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