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[ajva]

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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Re: This reminds me...

[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.