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Look around, most people need an envelope, back, front or otherwise. It's not meant to be a cure and/or a be all and end all. It's simply, if you're this... you

Look around, most people need an envelope, back, front or otherwise. It's not meant to be a cure and/or a be all and end all. It's simply, if you're this... you might have a problem. See a doctor. But instead of seeing a doctor most people are super-sizing their meal + soda. That's not BMI's fault.

yawpitch 2y ago
No, that is McDonald’s fault, but knowing their BMI doesn’t actually help them in any way. BMI is, again, useless as a reliable measure of anything below population scales, hence why the article discusses an alternative that isn’t actually utterly useless.
- chiefalchemist 2y ago
  McDonald's doesn't put anything in anyone's mouth. McDonald's doesn't order a super sized meal. McDonald's doesn't chew the food. McDonald's doesn't swallow that food. McDonald's doesn't look down and say, "My stomach is so big, I can't see my penis." BMI isn't working because it's being ignored. Again, it not a diagnostic tool, it's simply a raise a flag indicator. But why considered your BMI when you can get free refills on soda.
  - yawpitch 2y ago
    You’ve admitted it’s not a diagnostic tool. Because of that it’s also not a good or even moderately useful flag indicator, and decades of history bear that out, see the original article. Its only utility has ever been as a rough statistical guide for large populations, meaning it may be of use in developing things like regulations for the food industry, regulations like maybe, just maybe, McDonald’s shouldn’t release and widely and aggressively market a sandwich that in one serving represents at least a third to half of a human’s daily dietary energy needs with only a tiny fraction of their nutritional needs (as they’ve done in Canada and will be rolling out on the USA soon). Also by the time you’ve had that first soda you’ve already done the damage and engaged the systems that make you — including the sort of misinformed and fundamentally ignorant you that thinks it’s all about heroic self control and personal responsibility — crave the second one. It was only marketing done by a manufacturer who had abandoned morality and their own responsibility for their own actions that got you to taste that swill in the first place. BTW, no one has been able to supersize anything at McDonald’s in two decades, so you references are at least as dated and out of touch with reality as your understanding of dietary science.

yawpitch 2y ago

No, that is McDonald’s fault, but knowing their BMI doesn’t actually help them in any way. BMI is, again, useless as a reliable measure of anything below population scales, hence why the article discusses an alternative that isn’t actually utterly useless.

chiefalchemist 2y ago
McDonald's doesn't put anything in anyone's mouth. McDonald's doesn't order a super sized meal. McDonald's doesn't chew the food. McDonald's doesn't swallow that food. McDonald's doesn't look down and say, "My stomach is so big, I can't see my penis." BMI isn't working because it's being ignored. Again, it not a diagnostic tool, it's simply a raise a flag indicator. But why considered your BMI when you can get free refills on soda.
- yawpitch 2y ago
  You’ve admitted it’s not a diagnostic tool. Because of that it’s also not a good or even moderately useful flag indicator, and decades of history bear that out, see the original article. Its only utility has ever been as a rough statistical guide for large populations, meaning it may be of use in developing things like regulations for the food industry, regulations like maybe, just maybe, McDonald’s shouldn’t release and widely and aggressively market a sandwich that in one serving represents at least a third to half of a human’s daily dietary energy needs with only a tiny fraction of their nutritional needs (as they’ve done in Canada and will be rolling out on the USA soon). Also by the time you’ve had that first soda you’ve already done the damage and engaged the systems that make you — including the sort of misinformed and fundamentally ignorant you that thinks it’s all about heroic self control and personal responsibility — crave the second one. It was only marketing done by a manufacturer who had abandoned morality and their own responsibility for their own actions that got you to taste that swill in the first place. BTW, no one has been able to supersize anything at McDonald’s in two decades, so you references are at least as dated and out of touch with reality as your understanding of dietary science.