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2023-06-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
American Medical Association says BMI is 'racist' because measurement was designed based on white bodies in the 19th century


[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....
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-19 13:07|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 And of course the white man's food was designed to be shoveled into your fat mouth as quick as possible is racist too, along with all those racist farmers to grow it.

If you fat fucks stop eating we could comfortably feed 5-6 3rd world nations.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-06-19 13:28||   2023-06-19 13:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I’m sure diabetes is white supremacy as well.
Posted by Tyranysaurus Whesing2667 2023-06-19 13:29||   2023-06-19 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Aw, shoot, let me throw in sickle-cell anemia while we are at it.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-19 13:34||   2023-06-19 13:34|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by Frank G 2023-06-19 13:49||   2023-06-19 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 So what? The mythical Standard Patient™, when we humans are each unique, has been with us for as long as medicine.
Posted by magpie 2023-06-19 13:49||   2023-06-19 13:49|| Front Page Top

#6 If your uniqueness makes you consider a McDonalds Dinner Box to be your most suitable serving size, your extreme healthiness might require you to shop for a bathtub at a livestock feed store.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-19 14:12||   2023-06-19 14:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Anoth "My body my choice" success story.

Writ, uh, large...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-19 14:14||   2023-06-19 14:14|| Front Page Top

#8 She's said to be interested in an EV. The last one she ate tasted pretty good.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-19 14:28||   2023-06-19 14:28|| Front Page Top

#9 For my last colon excursion, I voided 7 lbs.
A good sweaty day on the ranch and I can lose 3-5 lbs.
I looked at the original Harvard tables and the quoted qualifier was 'within 10 lbs.'
I asked a weighing associate what the clothing allowance was, she replied "there is none".

So I claim the weigh number is overstated by 25-30 lbs and should reflect 'metabolic weight', not what you carry.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-19 14:45||   2023-06-19 14:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Any scale placed in a doctor's office will record +15 pounds whatever your scale at home shows.

It's a physical constant of the universe.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-19 15:03||   2023-06-19 15:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Did the AMA move to disestablish itself as a product of "oppressive colonial" Western Civilization?
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-19 15:39||   2023-06-19 15:39|| Front Page Top

#12 I had a large lady that worked for me at General Motors whose coworkers informed me that she had broken two commodes. I informed my boss about this when we and our wives were talking at a departmental dinner party. He asked me if it was the weight or the velocity. My wife laughed as his wife hit him.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-19 16:41||   2023-06-19 16:41|| Front Page Top

#13 weight or the velocity

Force=Mass*Velocity

Barney down style=poor commode
Posted by DarthVader 2023-06-19 18:08||   2023-06-19 18:08|| Front Page Top

#14 The White Man also invented gravity which is why fat people weigh so much.
Posted by SteveS 2023-06-19 18:45||   2023-06-19 18:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Two questions about the high BMI / toilet scenario: How do the really huge ones even fit on the seat? How do they know if the correct part is even over the bowl?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-19 18:55||   2023-06-19 18:55|| Front Page Top

#16 I guess it's a gradual thing. One doesn't go from L to XXL quickly.

Also had a fat broad at work. She was as mean and nasty and dumb as she was corpulent, but when she wasn't telling lies about people, she was too honest and once complained about frequent calls to her landlord to fix a broken toilet seats, as if the reason had been a total mystery.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-19 19:14||   2023-06-19 19:14|| Front Page Top

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