How is BMI racist?
They try to relate it to socioeconomic status, but BMI is applied to poor white people as well.
I don't buy that reasoning on face value though, it's perfectly affordable to eat healthy. These days fast food and processed foods are much more expensive than buying fresh groceries.
Just a trash article trying to normalize obesity and race-bait.
2. Pay people to write paper about it.
3. Have shills link it everywhere for free.
AMA any better as a source? https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-use-bmi-fet...
One mile. That's absurdly narrow. They are tailoring the definitions to meet the resultant behavior. You can grocery shop once every two weeks or less and be healthier than the average American by eating some of the cheapest possible foods, such as rice, beans, and cabbage, carrots, pasta... as an upper income individual I feed my kids this stuff all the time, its dirt cheap and they (we) are happy to eat it. There's serious problems to be dealt with in the US with respect to lower income support, but IMHO food related ones are mostly cultural / educational, not "lives 2 miles from super market, impossible to eat healthy now".
and no, that's a terrible article as well.
feel free to pick out the strongest point you think the article has and present it.
dumping links is not a conversation.
this is a long-studied area with real and verifiable research. the "grocery stores" you're thinking of are liquor/corner stores, which are not adequate substitutes.
None of the facts they sprinkled in are relevant to their conclusions.
What exactly do you find compelling from it?
I personally use my own self 10 years back as a 'normal' state. No I'm about 10% heavier then I should be. Working on it ;)
Most reasons denote it's racist because of socioeconomic status.
Should we account for income in BMI as well?