Posted on 06/24/2023 1:47:08 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The American Medical Association (AMA) is now discouraging the use of body mass index (BMI), calling it an "imperfect" and "problematic" means of assessing body fat and claiming it has been used for "racist exclusion."
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Are they admitting minorities are fatter than white people?
This has been posted a gazillion times.
It would certainly seem that is what the criticism is implying.
Wow Fox just noticed. This is like the 6th time this has been posted in the last week and a half. So I’ll keep this one short:
BMI is junk science
Always has been
May it die unlamented.
I’m not fat anymore! whooo-hooo!
Published June 24, 2023 4:28pm EDT
So then more will die. Because the insane woke crowd is afraid to tell people they are fat and need to lose weight.
This is Marc Siegel’s commentary on it.
BMI uses numbers, and numbers are part of mathematics, and math has been conclusively proven to be racisssss.
Not doing BMI measurements on black and brown skin patients is a dangerous act of racism.
They must have been basing BMI on the population of Sudan, or something. I’m an inch or two (depends on time of day) shy of 6’, and BMI told me my ideal weight is 130 lbs.
Even when I was skin and bones while going through my first round of chemo, I was still 30-40 pounds above that ridiculous number.
If she ain’t 280, she ain’t a lady!
In a related story, white supremacy in scales, is dominated in houseware departments and minorities are hurt most by forks and spoons
Personal responsibility is racist, laziness, and poor diet decisions are overt attempts to suppress blacks (as Asians are largely unaffected)
Everything is someone else’s fault
Sir Mix-a-Lot would agree with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho
You never heard of jogger butts?
BMI is not racist. It’s just highly inaccurate as a determination of obese or overweight.
BMI is junk science”
That may be that isn’t what to focus on. The AMA called it racist. So the woke cancer has taken the AMA. Another one gone.
The medical community is a #ing cult
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