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How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes ...


How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes ...

Size-based health and beauty ideals emanated from eugenic pseudoscientific postulates, and BMI continues to advance white supremacist embodiment norms.

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes ...

This article describes how size-based health and beauty ideals made their way into the medical field through the eugenics movement of the ...

[PDF] How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and ...

BMI is a continuation of white supremacist embodiment norms, racializing fat phobia under the guise of clinical authority, and has helped forge oppressive ...

How We Over Rely on BMI - AMA Journal of Ethics

Patients who are fat or perceived as fat are commonly characterized by some clinicians as unreliable narrators of their own health histories ...

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes ...

BMI, then, is a continuation of white supremacist embodiment norms, racializing fat phobia under the guise of clinical authority. This article describes the key ...

Healthy Living - Amputee Coalition

The AMA policy recommends educating physicians on the issues with BMI and alternative measures for diagnosing obesity. Some articles for further reading include ...

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes ...

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia. Expand. Publication type: Journal Article. Publication date: 2023-07-01.

BMI Is Bunk, but Fat Women Are Diseased - OUCI

Obesity”, is defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30. Yet the tool, BMI, has been shown to be flawed in its weight classing. BMI categories were made by ...

(PDF) BMI Is Bunk, but Fat Women Are Diseased: The Hypocrisy of ...

PDF | “Obesity”, is defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30. Yet the tool, BMI, has been shown to be flawed in its weight classing.

Dr. Aletha Maybank on X: "How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White ...

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia https://t.co/urL7nWLKbM via @JournalofEthics #SabrinaStrings.

Your Weight and How to Control It | Semantic Scholar

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia. S. Strings. Sociology, Psychology. AMA journal of ethics. 2023. TLDR. BMI is a ...

Sabrina Strings | University of California, Santa Barbara

Sabrina Strings, University of California, Santa Barbara: 346 Followers, 6 Following, 40 Research papers. Research interests: Intersectionality, Health…

All About BMI - Collaborative Counseling & Nutrition

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number that must tell us a great deal about our health, right? After all, it's printed at the top of the page ...

BMI Is Bunk, but Fat Women Are Diseased: The Hypocrisy of &ldquo

Obesity”, is defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30. Yet the tool, BMI, has been shown to be flawed in its weight classing.

Incorporating a Health at Every Size approach in Canadian medicine

Recommendations for physician-led patient interventions and how physicians can incorporate Health at Every Size principles into clinical ...

Exploring Link Between Racism, Diet Culture & Health Care

Beyond's latest blog post explores the complex and longstanding relationship between racism and diet culture, written by an eating disorder ...

health — Bunk History

Cartoon spoofing weight loss and weight gain patent medicines. How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia. Size-based health and ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) - Obesity - ProCon.org

BMI is used by health professionals to determine if a person over age 20 is underweight (a BMI under 18.5), a healthy weight (between 18.5 and 24.9), ...

Anti-Racism Resources - August 2024 - naafa

Each month, we feature educational resources in the NAAFA Newsletter to support our community in working to dismantle racism.

Boris Julián Pinto Bustamante. on LinkedIn: How the Use of BMI ...

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia.