The American Medical Association (AMA) voted last week to recommend against using BMI as the sole measure of healthy weight. Part of the reason is due to its alleged “racist” past.
The AMA said in a statement that BMI had caused “historic harm” and had been used for “racist exclusion.” website. It is important to consider relative body types “beyond race, ethnicity, sex and gender,” he said, adding that BMI has a history of use in connection with eugenics. House argued that BMI should be considered not used as the sole measurement. healthy weight. (Related: Revealed! Conclusive Proof That Racism Is Always Everywhere)
BMI is a measure of physical health that uses height and weight to calculate a number that determines whether an individual is underweight, healthy weight, overweight or obese. Web MD.
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“BMI does not adequately represent racial and ethnic minorities,” the AMA said. I have written.
According to the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health, Hispanics and blacks are at higher risk of diabetes than whites, and Asians are more likely than other races to suffer from diabetes despite gaining less weight.
According to the AMA’s website, the group recommended that doctors consider other factors such as height-to-weight ratio, visceral fat measurements, muscle, fat and bone percentages and other metabolic factors. It says. The association’s website also claims that BMI “loses predictability when applied at the individual level.” (Related: Amazon confirms it cut off a man’s smart home because a random man said he was racist)
In another resolution approved by the AMA last week, cross sex Medical interventions for youth with gender identity issues.of Resolution is committed to increasing access to so-called “gender-affirming” care across the United States and to actively lobbying to increase access to those procedures.
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