This makes no sense. If your population is fat, doesn't it make sense to study fat people?
> The reasons are largely practical ones. Most medical school tables are not large enough to accommodate a human being larger than 200 lbs or longer than 6' tall.
> Donated bodies also have to be moved by students and/or researchers, and heavier bodies are harder to move, posing injury risk.
These also seem like bad reasons. Why not dismember the body? Why not use them for crash tests or other cadaver-driven science?
> The reasons are largely practical ones. Most medical school tables are not large enough to accommodate a human being larger than 200 lbs or longer than 6' tall. > Donated bodies also have to be moved by students and/or researchers, and heavier bodies are harder to move, posing injury risk.
These also seem like bad reasons. Why not dismember the body? Why not use them for crash tests or other cadaver-driven science?