BMI standards are ‘racist’: American Medical Association

The American Medical Association, the largest council of doctors in the US, is ready to say goodbye to determining if someone is a healthy weight solely by the body mass index, owing to the measurement’s “racist” roots. BMI — which physicians have used to measure body fatness and predict obesity-related health risks for 200 years — is “indirect and imperfect” due to its historically harmful use for “racist exclusion,” per a newly issued policy from the AMA’s Council on Science & Public Health. The report found that “BMI does not appropriately represent racial and ethnic minorities” because it’s based on “the imagined ideal Caucasian” of the 19th century, without considering a person’s gender or ethnicity. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/bmi-standards-are-racist-american-medical-association/ #bmi #americanmedicalassociation #health The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/nypost Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NYPost