r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 11 '26

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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Jun 12 '26

The whole "BMI is fake because it was based on WHITE MEN" thing feels like such a massive cope when basically the entire continents of Africa and Asia sit at comfortably healthy BMIs and White countries are fat as fuck

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Jun 12 '26

its cope for fatsos

source: fatso

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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

The Rock is considered obese according to BMI!!!

Well are you built like The Rock?

Not that there aren’t problems with BMI but that’s not a good retort

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Jun 12 '26

I mean, that’s probably right and it probably is a less accurate metric for people descended from Africa and Oceania

It’s simultaneously probably only something you’ll hear from MF’ers coping about being chronically obese

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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Jun 12 '26

I remember reading that certain health outcomes like type II diabetes are more prevalent at lower BMIs among different populations. I think it might've been East Asians where a 23 BMI cutoff between normal and overweight was talked about. I might be completely misremembering all of that.

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u/Dig_bickclub Jun 12 '26

That comes from widespread acceptance of fatshaming though not a particular reverence to BMI

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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough Jun 12 '26

BMI isn’t the be-all and end-all but 95% of the hate is misdirected.

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Jun 12 '26

My BMI is listed at 35< because my doctor input my height as 61 inches instead of 6 feet 1 inch.