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 …
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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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My doctor’s online web portal informed me that my BMI was unhealthily high when I was 39 weeks pregnant. True story. (I, uh, considered losing some of that weight very shortly thereafter
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39 weeks! My weight had increased during a full-term pregnancy!!
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You may be using "monitor" in a sense that is not similar to what happens. It would be an interesting job for a student to add code that checks for a record of current pregnancy before computing or displaying a BMI, but people can do that easily.
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My cousin was told to LOSE weight during her pregnancy. She's in her eighth month and has lost 10 pounds and I cannot even IMAGINE telling someone who is CREATING A WHILE PERSON WITH THEIR BODY that they are too fat.
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Weight loss, yes even if you're already fat!, during pregnancy is hella dangerous!
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