dragonlady7

medicalization of disgust, it's all about conformity baby

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god i hate how normalized diet culture and shit like bmi and calories are. bmi https://href.li/?https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb is based on eugenics. calories https://href.li/?https://lilynicholsrdn.com/6-reasons-to-stop-counting-calories-11-things-to-do-instead/ are a measurement of how much energy something gives u and not at all of how much weight or fat ull gain. diets https://href.li/?https://www.mercycare.org/services/food-nutrition/why-diets-dont-work/ have been proven to be harmful and ultimately unhelpful in actually losing weight. fatness https://href.li/?https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fat-is-not-the-problem-fat-stigma-is/ has been largely proven to not be inherently unhealthy and doesnt inherently cause health issues.

if anyone has more good links to add on then please do and if anyone knows more on this stuff than me then dont hesitate to correct me!

FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD!! if you’re eating, ever, and even/especially if it’s hard, know that i am personally SO SO proud of you

The BMI was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, the 19th century statistician who invented phrenologist anthropometry. He wasn’t just a eugenicist, he was one of the founding fathers of racist pseudoscience. Please do not listen to anything he has to say about your body.

“And get this: While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35 percent for adults and 18 percent for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs.”

Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/why-bmi-big-fat-scam/

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