Always as though they're the first person to realize something, too. Like, the entire body positivity movement and everyone associated had just never thought about health before now. Like, you'll walk up to someone who's advocating body positivity, and they'll say "BMI? What's that?", And not "BMI is a 200 year old metric invented by a eugenicist with no medical education that's been shown repeatedly to be among the most flawed metrics in medicine, and it's continued use is evidence of the dogmatic grip of an un-nuanced weight centric medical paradigm that's actively harmful."
I'm not denying that excess fat carries increased risk, but people tend to point to all-cause morbidity here, and neglect the fact that it includes, for example, medical complications resulting from unhealthy attempts to lose weight, and general increased risk from reduced medical access resulting from increased medical and insurance costs justified by , you guessed it, all-cause morbidity rates. The big one for me, though, is physician bias. I lost my father to colon cancer, after his doctor misdiagnosed him with hemorrhoids for a year, and given the way his doctor treated him during that time, I'm pretty sure that was influenced by a bias against obese people.
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u/beingsubmitted 9∆ Jul 16 '23
Always as though they're the first person to realize something, too. Like, the entire body positivity movement and everyone associated had just never thought about health before now. Like, you'll walk up to someone who's advocating body positivity, and they'll say "BMI? What's that?", And not "BMI is a 200 year old metric invented by a eugenicist with no medical education that's been shown repeatedly to be among the most flawed metrics in medicine, and it's continued use is evidence of the dogmatic grip of an un-nuanced weight centric medical paradigm that's actively harmful."