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There’s a Dangerous Racial Bias in the Body Mass Index
- towaway1138 8y agoUgh. It's not "bias", it's simply new science. Or perhaps "new-ish", since most of this has been known for decades.
- sridca 8y agoYes, it is indeed a "bias". Otherwise BMI recommendations would have already been accounting for race. They account for height and weight, but where do you see mention of race here, for instance? https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi... Their recommendations are utterly useless -- even harmful -- to South Asians.