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Oh fuck *off*.

Everybody knows BMI is a shit measure anyway. Why does an entire profession, scientifically trained, ignore the evidence of the scientific method? Knowing that BMI is shit because it measures only weight with respect to height rather than anything else like bodyfat or muscle, still they persevere with it because they can't be bothered to do anything else.

Are they going to turn away athletes like Martin Johnson or Matthew Pinsent?

Cunts. Morons. I despair.

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booklectica

My mother has been told to lose weight because she has liver problems. The doctor does not know the cause of the liver problems. My mother is a size 12-14 and has been for some years by dint of developing a mild obsession with her size; as she's in her mid-50s, I think she's unlikely to get much thinner than that, and 12-14 is a perfectly reasonable size to be. I'm angry with the doctor because she's bolstering my mother's belief that she is overweight (still) and because she's told her to do something I think may not be possible, or only possible if my mother develops an eating disorder.

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ajva.livejournal.com

Fucking hell, that's outrageous. Mysterious aetiology? Tell the patient it's their fault for being fat, even if it bloody isn't. Doctor, don't admit you don't know; no, shift the blame that should lie at the feet of your own ignorance. Sorted.

Wankers. Your poor mum. :o(

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slightlyfoxed.livejournal.com

Mm. I can't recall the name, but I remember reading a size-acceptance women's magazine about eight years ago. It had a medical checklist of questions to ask if your doctor told you to lose weight: Things like, how will that specifically improve the condition under consideration? And it advised pointing out if you already had the condition before you gained weight.

My appalling GP in Wales, with whom I was only briefly registered, liked to tell people to lose weight. He weighed a mate of mine and said he could stand to lose a stone - it turned out that he had mis-estimated the chap's height, by several inches.

Sorry to hear about your mother.