>Published today in PLOS One, the study found weight-normative messaging - the idea that weight is the most important measure of a person’s health - largely pre

>Published today in PLOS One, the study found weight-normative messaging - the idea that weight is the most important measure of a person’s health - largely predominates on TikTok with the most popular videos glorifying weight loss and positioning food as a means to achieve health and thinness. I'd really like to know how they drew the line on any of this. A few years ago I was about 15 pounds over what I used to be - a BMI of 26. Not crazy, but was def getting tired more than I used to. I started a spreadsheet logging everything I ate. Within four months I was back at my goal weight and have mostly kept it off since. I worked out some, but mostly just got 10k steps a day to get my weight down. I'm sure this would qualify as "weight-normative" messaging by the study. I obviously know all the studies that have shown BMI is not perfect (especially since it counts muscle and fat tissue the same) but people take this to mean that it has little or no effect. Most people into dieting are smart enough to know if the ten extra pounds they put on is making them healthier or not. There are obviously some people in America who choose to eat to little, but this number dwarves in comparison with those who eat a lot and a bit telling this study focuses on the first group instead of accounts which talk about drinking, fast food, cooking, etc.