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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

      Foz Meadows Retweeted Jake Mey, PhD, RD

      BMI is a eugenicist tool created to calculate the weight of *populations,* not individuals. Even its creator said it shouldn’t be used to measure health. It only entered medical practice because American insurance companies wanted an easy tool for screening/denying claims.https://twitter.com/CakeNutrition/status/1401058532976377861 …

      Foz Meadows added,

      Jake Mey, PhD, RD @CakeNutrition
      The BMI is never leaving. Get over it. Lots of us (professionals that actually impact patients and policies) are working on combating obesity stigma btw... but NONE of us are refuting the BMI. https://twitter.com/Artists_Ali/status/1400784601921081346 …
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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

      It cannot distinguish between muscle and fat, let alone anything more salient to individual bodytype or health needs. It’s actively dangerous. And when I worked in Adoption & Fostering in the UK, BMI was used to *screen out* potential foster parents on the specious basis that -

      3 replies 56 retweets 502 likes
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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

      - a prospective parent with a high BMI was probably fat and lazy and wouldn’t be sufficiently “active” to look after a child. I had this explained to me in detail by my then boss, which resulted in an argument because: surprise! I was a new parent with a high BMI!

      2 replies 37 retweets 392 likes
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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

      Even if you have an obese patient who is legitimately experiencing health issues, BMI does jack all to identify the underlying cause, which results in fat patients getting told over and over to just loose weight and exercise, to the exclusion of any real diagnosis.

      7:08 AM - 5 Jun 2021
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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

          I recall a story about a fat woman with breathing issues whose doctor looked only at her BMI, ignored her pleas for other tests, and told her to lose weight. She had a tumour. By the time the doctor felt comfortable “ruling out” weight, it had grown inoperable. She died.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

          This is not an isolated incident. It is frighteningly common. And thanks to the medical obsession with BMI and the focus on thinness over health, weight loss behaviours that would be instantly pegged as disordered and dangerous in the thin are *actively encouraged* in the fat.

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

          During a checkup a year or so ago, my GP high-fived me for weight loss after looking at my prior weight, counting weeks under her breath, and seemingly concluding that I’d lost it at a good rate. Had she actually asked me, I could’ve told her: no, that is not what happened.

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

          I’d lost it all in just under a fortnight where, due to depression and other physical issues, I’d barely eaten or moved. It all came back on as soon as I recovered. But when I went back after genuinely improving my exercise & eating? More muscle, so higher BMI, so no high five.

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

          Here’s the thing, though: my GP is, in all other respects, lovely - and when I report a problem, she actually listens and schedules the relevant tests instead of assuming it’s because I’m fat. But even *she* still has a blind spot about weight and BMI. It’s trained into doctors.

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

          Did you know they still monitor your BMI when you’re pregnant? A charming and pointless source of stress! I nearly wept with relief when the GP I saw while pregnant openly acknowledged, “Yeah, this is utter fake bullshit and we shouldn’t be using it, just ignore it.”

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        8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Jun 5

          ANYWAY: the moral of the story is, fuck BMI, and fuck any doctor who genuinely believes it has a purpose beyond furthering fatphobia and medical malpractice.

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