Figure 1:

Timeline of the development of the IBW model

• Dark blue box represents the title of the publication (book, article, table)
• Blue outlined white box represents the year of publication, attribution and brief summary of publication results
• Top row, read from left to right, light blue arrows pointing in the direction of the progression. Bottom row, read from left to right, light blue arrows pointing in the direction of the progression.
• Each publication in the timeline a catalyst for the next project/development in the ideal body weight timeline

References:

Medico-Actuarial Mortality Investigation. Vol. 1. New York, NY, USA: Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors; The Actuarial Society of America; 1912.

Dublin L. I, Lotha A. J. Twenty-Five Years of Health Progress: A Study of the Mortality Experience among the Industrial Policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1911 to 1935. New York, NY, USA: Metropolitan Life Insurance; 1937

Ideal weight for women. Statistical bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1943.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Ideal weights for men. Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. 1942;23:6–8.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. New weight standards for men and women. Statistical Bulletin-Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. 1959;40:1–4

Build and Blood Pressure Study. Vol. 1. Chicago, Ill, USA: Society of Actuaries; 1959

Build Study 1979. Chicago, Ill, USA: Society of Actuaries and Associations of Life Insurance Medical Directors; 1980

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Metropolitan height and weight tables. Statistical Bulletin (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) 1983;64:1–19

Bray G., editor. Obesity in perspective. (DHEW Publication no (NIH) 75-708).Fogarty International Center. Series on Preventive Medicine. 1975;2(part 1) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2520869