I guess we all need to get with the program.
EVERYTHING is now racist.
All those factors were fine, muscle mass, etc., until someone said the magic word.
Call it the Lizzo Legacy.
To b ehonest, the waist-height ratio is not accurate for anyone who has a lot of muscle tissue.
Well timed for the Chris Christie run. 👏
They’re calling black people FAT
That’s what it says
Unless she pretends to be a man - and even then she is still a fat, black woman.
Being a fat ass is now “Normal” according to BMI
Some doctors won't do hip replacements if the BMI is over 35.
-PJ
What do think about smoking Kools?
AMA encourages Medical Doctors to go against Medical Science.
Whatt fine buncha wokists.
BMI is stupid. Its a simplest and highly inaccurate method of determining whether someone is obese. It totally disregards someones muscle mass and bone structure. Look at it this way. Take a 100 meter sprinter. And then take a 10K runner. The BMI of the sprinter is much greater than the 10K runner. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is not obese. She has very little fat on her body. But her BMI is much higher than Agnes Jebet Tirop a Kenyan 10K record holder. BMI is fake science. We have ways of measuring fat. BMI is not a good one.
Since Black life expectancy is 5 to 7 years less than Whites you would think they would want to go in the opposite direction. But I’m not a Doctor.
Like we trust anything the AMA ever will have to say again. Ever.
I don’t need no stinkin’ AMA..I deemphasized BMI myself!😎
Chris Christie finally has something to cheer about.
I applaud this. An incompetent doc wanted to put my 5 year-old through a blood draw simply because of low BMI. I switched doctors and the new doctor gave the all clear based on physical examination and overall growth trend.
The BMI is a joke- i can tell you from my own experience. That said its even a bigger joke to cancel because of racism.
So basically they are saying (without wanting to outright say it) that a large number of black people are obese, so that is normative, and we shouldn’t call them obese.
Of course they’re still going to get diabetes and heart disease and die, but at least they won’t get hurt feelings.
simple observation...bodies of blacks are different...but not certain how bmi works out
“That leads to poor quality care and specifically to Black women, who typically have higher levels of BMI compared to the average population,” said Sutton.
The AMA suggests tracking weight with other factors by measuring waist circumference, skin folds and resting metabolic health, among other factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure for a total picture of a patient’s health.
how soon before waist measurements and skin fold, better known as mud flaps for all the Spinal Tap fans, is deemed racist???