American Medical Association Says BMI Is 'Racist'

well folks the American Medical Association is no longer particularly interested in medicine you know body mass index is pretty crude standard that basically just looks at your weight and your height and then tells you if you might be overweight or obese and it's it's not just positive in every situation right BMI doesn't take into account body type sometimes they're athletes who for example have a lot

of muscle mass and they're not particularly tall and their BMI will be quote unquote off the charts you'll see that with athletes all the time and so they have to actually recalibrate your body mass based on your athletic activity but as sort of a Rough and Ready guide for whether somebody needs to lose weight BMI is useful well now the American Medical Association is saying that

um body mass index is racist yep because why well it was categorizing too many Black and Hispanic people as overweight apparently now is it true that there are a bunch of people who are Black and Hispanic who are not overweight who are being categorized as overweight I'd like to see the evidence on that one I really would because it seems to me that it's sort of

again a Rough and Ready estimate BMI is useful again it's not like this positive it's not a body fat calculator it's not you going through and looking at the levels of fat in your actual system it's basically a crude measure of maybe you need to lose weight but doctors know that like they can look at you and say you look obese and your BMI is like

30. so probably you're obese but the ma says this is no longer good because it might be racist according to the AMA the new policy was part of the AMA Council on science and Public Health Report which evaluated the problematic history with BMI and explored Alternatives the report also outlined the harms and benefits of using BMI and pointed to BMI is an imperfect way to measure

body fat in multiple groups given that it does not account for differences across racial or ethnic groups Sexes genders and age span given the findings reports the new policy supports AMA in educating Physicians on the issues with BMI and alternative measures for diagnosing obesity so they're they're saying now we need to use more sophisticated measures of measuring body fat for example they say that it should

be used in conjunction now with other valid measures of risk such as but not limited to measurements of visceral fat body adipocity index body composition relative fat Mass waste circumference genetic metabolic factors the policy noted BMI is significantly correlated with the amount of fat mass in the general population but it loses predictability when applied on the individual level right that would be the thing that I'm

talking about here where if you're an NFL player and you're a running back in your 5 9 200 it's going to rate you as obese okay but how many of the people are actually being rated by BMI are NFL players let's be real about this it's just not giving results to the people is the problem and we're supposed to pretend that you're not fat when you

are fat a huge percentage of the country is now fat it is perfectly obvious to everyone that this is the case that fat is not equally deposited across different groups it's not equally deposited across men across women across age groups across races because when you agglomerate people very rarely well the statistics we absolutely identical across groups in pretty much any category height weight income okay but

because apparently too many Black and Hispanic people are charting and it's fat the AMA is now going to say that BMI itself is racist I'm sorry this is ridiculous it's ridiculous on his face how about this how about we all eat healthier and we go work out instead of ripping on the metric that is being used as sort of a Rough and Ready way for doctors

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statement quote our Ama recognizes the issues with using body mass index as a measurement because of a Eugenics behind the history of BMI of the use of BMI for racist exclusion and C PMI cutoffs are based on the Imagine ideal Caucasian and does not consider a person's gender or ethnicity so um I'm confused so if you have a BMI of 30 and you're black does this

make you not fat like what what exactly are we talking about right here so one of the things they're pointing out is that there are racial differentials with regard to how BMI Works among the different races which okay that's fine and doctors should know about that but the idea that BMI as a tool is racist in and of itself is really really silly according to the

Daily Mail recent evidence suggests that people of Asian descent are just as prone to certain conditions like type 2 diabetes at a lower BMI of around 20 which is considered normal for other races similarly diabetes is two to four times more prevalent and more deadly in black Hispanic and Asian Americans and one size fits-all screening based on non-white non-hispanic white bodies is highly likely to result

fat under the BMI stats and that's a problem in the United States particularly so another excuse for quote unquote fat positivity is probably the best way to read all this again if we're just talking about adding more information to the medical system I'm totally fine with that you know better individual treatment of patients is totally a wonderful and and Fine Thing but it seems to me

that much of what is driving the AMA these days is an attempt to getting good with the woke crowd whether it's the AMA declaring that gender affirming Healthcare is actually the gold standard in the United States well Europe basically bans it or whether you're talking about BMI suddenly becoming racist because there are too many people who are being categorized as overweight or obese from cultures that

uh or from races that are non-white pretty amazing stuff meanwhile in other things that I hate today uh Rashida Talib who is a horrible person and one of the worst idiots in the American Congress she she is now out there urging Eco activists to be much more aggressive which is just what we need we need more people gluing themselves to uh objects here she was yesterday

uh again we have to be much more aggressive in regards to fossil fuel expansions um you know it's it's already outpaced with the Trump Administration was trying to do um you all know already I I know this this is just again me speaking on behalf of my district we are tired of being studied we are tired of the task forces we are tired of commissions we're

done uh we're at this point where we're like we get it we know this is happening oh so they're done they're tired and that's what we need is we we need more crazy activism from the Eco activist which is apparently what is happening um with regard to these climate activists who are who are now going after Monet paintings these clowns the situation is urgent says pandemic

was nothing compared to the climate collapse what's coming can't even Be Imagined is in Sweden children in the elderly will die first and we'll suffer non-stop but no one will make it in time ban Pete Mining and restore the wetlands okay so our health is under threat she says while gluing herself to a van uh Monet painting how can you do nothing about it and everybody's

just standing around filming these these cretans your security what do you do for a living okay here's what we need we need full-on body tackles of people who do this sort of stuff that's what we need arrest these people throw them in prison for five years and then this will stop it's ridiculous and it's insane and the notion that if you glue yourself to a painting

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