BMIoan

Chill Uncategorized

Oh, not this shit again. How do smart people’s minds fail so spectacularly? I just can’t understand.

Something I’ve realized, though, is that most people can only really comprehend or be at all competent in 1-2 fields. Sometimes only one. I’m very, very lucky because I can get up to decent speed (not true expertise) in a few dozen fields. Most people can be good at one and ok at one other…and that’s just it. For 99.99% of people, that’s the hard limit.

Excessive BMI is not a predictor or diagnosis, but it’s an indicator in the medical sense. And it’s a population-level statistic in the same way that Covid infection rates are as well — but you still don’t want Covid just as you still shouldn’t want to be obese. That’s because, “Excess BMI is associated with substantially shorter healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy.”

In the medical community, by the way, this is not controversial in the least. There it’s like saying, “Pain hurts.” It is only outside of that where the food conglomerates and their Fat Acceptance allies have muddied the debate (similar to what Big Tobacco did earlier) where there is any doubt.

Just sad to see someone who should know better spouting propaganda like this.

And by the way, my friend Mary from long ago was 5’9″ and she had a baby while never exceeding normal BMI. The kid was eight pounds something and perfectly healthy. Not advisable for most, but perfectly possible for someone already naturally thin. She went from 120 pounds to 140 pounds during the pregnancy.