Originally Posted by
Iowa Farm Boy
While you are potentially correct

, when they were hired they went through it.
I had guys in my interview class who were flushed with niacin (to lower cholesterol) and nearly fainting from hunger due to their crash diet.
While they said "height and weight proportional", I had heard that 200 lb was a mysterious cutoff point, and my normal height/weight was 6' 3" / 220 lb. I dropped to 195.
Of course my initial issue of uniform trousers were too small in just a few months.