American Medical Association: BMI Scale is “Racist”
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June 22, 2023
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June 22, 2023I know the whole “being skinny makes you a racist” thing isn’t new. There was a post on this website on that same topic yesterday. What is new, however, is not only the complacency by so-called professionals of the health and wellness field, but their agreement with such a ludicrous tenet of progressive ideology.
From The College Fix:
A national medical group declared that the Body Mass Index is “racist” and medical professionals should be educated on its dark history.
“Delegates at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates adopted [a] policy aimed at clarifying how body mass index (BMI) can be used as a measure in medicine,” the group announced.
A council within the AMA researched the “problematic history with BMI.”
“The report also outlined the harms and benefits of using BMI and pointed to BMI as an imperfect way to measure body fat in multiple groups given that it does not account for differences across race/ethnic groups, sexes, genders, and age-span, the AMA stated. It did not link to a copy of the report. “Given the report’s findings, the new policy supports AMA in educating physicians on the issues with BMI and alternative measures for diagnosing obesity.”
The group announced:
Under the newly adopted policy, the AMA recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm, its use for racist exclusion, and because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations. Due to significant limitations associated with the widespread use of BMI in clinical settings, the AMA suggests that it be used in conjunction with other valid measures of risk such as, but not limited to, measurements of visceral fat, body adiposity index, body composition, relative fat mass, waist circumference and genetic/metabolic factors.
“There are numerous concerns with the way BMI has been used to measure body fat and diagnose obesity, yet some physicians find it to be a helpful measure in certain scenarios,” AMA Immediate Past President Jack Resneck said.
Some medical professionals have previously called BMI “racist” and linked it to “body terrorism.”
If you want to update it, then update it, but stop using it as a convenient method of demonstrating your “cultural awareness.” I know identity politics is the hot new thing for the 21st century, but damn… aren’t y’all tired yet?
You cannot keep calling everything you disagree with “racist.” Statistically, it’s impossible, and at this stage, it’s been so overused that the word’s lost most of its meaning. If we’re gonna fight about sh*t that doesn’t really matter, can we at least get a little more creative with it? If no one really cares, and nothing changes when all is said and done, what’s the harm with switching it up every once in a while?
There’s little I despise more than not being able to debate things. It’s one of my favorite activities, and do you know how often I get to participate in it? Almost never. It puts too many boo-boos on too many feelings.
If you’ve ever studied history, like at all, then you’re pretty well-versed in the fact that there’s a “dark history” for *everything.* That serves as “proof” for very little, especially since I’ve yet to see how the BMI scale was created to serve as an exclusionary measure…
Also… I don’t think “body terrorism” is a thing. I’m almost certain someone just made that up, and it would probably fold like a cheap futon if it were actually challenged. Luckily, it’s evoked by the side that doesn’t have to answer questions…
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The world is going insane over “racism” in all its nefarious forms. Worse, the crazies are now running the asylum.
BMI is so bad and so racist that the AMA pretty much said, ‘use it along with other methods.’ If it’s as horribly racist as the AMA says, why use it at all? Oh… that’s right, because it’s not actually racist…
The problem is these people and their target audience’s first language is Woke Word Salad so they need to label things as “racist” or “sexist” or “transphobic” otherwise the audience won’t understand the veracity of how bad it is since everything to them is a bad thing.
Wait, what? You don’t say, there is a difference between men and women’s bodies? What’s a women? I am about to find out. I think a thorough investigation is in order. (All this fun and paid too, at least I think I should be paid. I guess I need to bring that subject up with the wife again.) I see my wife took today off. Let the games, I mean investigation begin. (There was some place I was supposed to be at and something else I usually start doing at 8 AM every morning. I guess if it was important, the boss will call and remind me.)
“’The report also outlined the harms and benefits of using BMI and pointed to BMI as an imperfect way to measure body fat in multiple groups given that it does not account for differences across race/ethnic groups, sexes, genders, and age-span, the AMA stated.'”