2023-06-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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American Medical Association says BMI is 'racist' because measurement was designed based on white bodies in the 19th century
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[Daily Mail] A leading US medical organization is urging doctors to ditch body mass index (BMI) as the primary measurement for a healthy bodyweight, citing its 'racist' roots.
The American Medical Association, the largest organization of doctors in the US, said the metric has been used for ’racist exclusion’ and fails to consider differences in body composition that vary based on race and sex.
Body mass index (BMI), devised by a white man considering white bodies, is measured by dividing a person's weight in kilograms or pounds by the square of height in meters or feet, and it has been deeply ingrained in the medical system as a way to measure population health more broadly.
But on an individual level, BMI does not take into consideration relative body shape and how fat is stored. For instance, Asian people who fall within a 'healthy' BMI range are still at a high risk of diabetes....
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