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BMI categories (underweight, overweight or obese) from general reading table are inappropriate for athletes, children, the elderly, and the infirm.
The female calf is underweight at about 30 kilograms.
Being underweight is higher risk than being overweight.
At a nearby clinic, wailing babies, sullen children and skinny mothers line the benches. Some have children already enrolled in a WFP feeding program for chronically underweight children and breastfeeding mothers.
He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
He's thirty pounds underweight.
The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.
The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
The fund is underweight in mining.
2011, Murdoch, S. Foreigners back for Aussie stocks, The Australian "It's a long-run trend of foreign investors -- typically being underweight the banking sector in Australia," Mr Baker said.
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1996, United States Institute of Medicine Committee on Scientific Evaluation of WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria, WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 110, Underweight reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature and causes of underweight.
Further, structured managers usually attempt to hit their lower targets by relying on a relatively large number of small active deviations (i.e., overweights and underweights).
Consider a conventional long-only portfolio with underweights on holdings the investment manager does not like and overweights on holdings the manager does like.
Although the portfolio overweights the German market, it underweights German marks.
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