"body-mass-index-neutral"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/1/2012 08:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>On public radio the other evening: a scientific report finds that eating
>chocolate can be "body-mass-index-neutral."
>
>In ordinary terms, that seems to mean, essentially, "non-fattening," a word
>that none of the two or three people inviolved in the story deigned to use.

Maybe they meant it doesn't make you shorter.

Joel

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