This is very weird: the government should be promoting health and exercie at any size, not BMI. I’m very sick, which isn’t reflected here. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43697948 …pic.twitter.com/AJakRos160
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This is very weird: the government should be promoting health and exercie at any size, not BMI. I’m very sick, which isn’t reflected here. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43697948 …pic.twitter.com/AJakRos160
You can reach that weight by getting pneumonia and losing a stone in two weeks, making you look gaunt and leaving you so weak you need to sit down several times on the 500m walk to the pharmacy.
So this tool on the BBC is something they’ve had before and I get why they are doing it but surely they know the comparison thing must be extremely damaging?
Yes, it’s very odd. Anyone discovering they’re slightly overweight and instantly politicised...
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