Wapo: BMI may be racist (compare, Walmart, vs, percentage)

[Mr.Retired]

Excerpt: Wapo: BMI may be racist

Response: Opinion

I have walked this planet for decades and ............I have not .............I repeat ....not once............
ever run into an elderly and grossly overweight person. Why? They have been long buried.
Checked out early. Six feet under.

Something to think about...............................next time you pick up that bag of potato chips.

[atltechdude]

BMI is a poor indicator of physical fitness since it doesn’t distinguish between fat and muscle tissue. Obesity is an excess of fat only.

[Mathguy]

When there just isn't enough racism in the world, the news media and the chronically butt-hurt have to roll of their sleeves and make more.

[tipsyguam]

I hope the Democrat cancel culture continues all the way to the point of canceling their owntheir own racist, intolerant party itself.

[kmom2]

Didn't this nonsense fly out the window with Covid? 78% of those hospitalized were obese or overweight. Maybe BMI isn't the best tool, but being fat isn't healthy, especially with Covid.

[ClaraC]

It DOES matter where you carry the weight. Weight carried in the buttocks tends to be much less harmful (or maybe not even at all harmful?) than weight carried in the belly and torso.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Originally Posted by kmom2

Didn't this nonsense fly out the window with Covid?

On the contrary, given that a majority of black women are now defined by their BMI as obese, that obesity is seen as a negative trait, and that black women are at the top of the intersectional heirarchy, getting rid of BMI is obviously a top social justice priority.

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by atltechdude

BMI is a poor indicator of physical fitness since it doesn’t distinguish between fat and muscle tissue. Obesity is an excess of fat only.

It’s a useless metric.

A first year RD student can tell you that...in their sleep.

[GoldenPineTree]

Originally Posted by ottomobeale

Looked her up saw a pic.

She is overweight. Not massively so. Certainly not Jabba the Hut lard. But she is overweight.

Is this is the picture you saw? -> https://eu.dispatch.com/story/entert...ou/6422592002/

She is obese, not overweight. I don't know what "Jabba the hut" lard means, but if she looked like Jabba, she'd be in the guinness book of world records.

[Winterbeard]

BMI has been largely discredited anyway these days, otherwise almost every elite hockey or rugby player would be medically obese. It doesn't take into account muscle mass compared with fat etc.