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It's in the title, but that article lists no reasons why it's racist. They try to relate it to socioeconomic status, but BMI is applied to poor white people as
by theultdev 2y ago
It's in the title, but that article lists no reasons why it's racist.
They try to relate it to socioeconomic status, but BMI is applied to poor white people as well.
I don't buy that reasoning on face value though, it's perfectly affordable to eat healthy. These days fast food and processed foods are much more expensive than buying fresh groceries.
Just a trash article trying to normalize obesity and race-bait.
- philk10 2y agoyeh, the poor neighborhoods are full of grocery stores with fresh food and not food deserts AMA any better as a source? https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-use-bmi-fetishizes-white-embodiment-and-racializes-fat-phobia/2023-07 https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-use-bmi-fet...
- cloverich 2y ago> "food deserts", low-income census tracts that are more than one mile from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas and more than 10 miles from a supermarket in rural areas. One mile. That's absurdly narrow. They are tailoring the definitions to meet the resultant behavior. You can grocery shop once every two weeks or less and be healthier than the average American by eating some of the cheapest possible foods, such as rice, beans, and cabbage, carrots, pasta... as an upper income individual I feed my kids this stuff all the time, its dirt cheap and they (we) are happy to eat it. There's serious problems to be dealt with in the US with respect to lower income support, but IMHO food related ones are mostly cultural / educational, not "lives 2 miles from super market, impossible to eat healthy now".
- theultdev 2y agoyes even the poor have grocery stores. and no, that's a terrible article as well. feel free to pick out the strongest point you think the article has and present it. dumping links is not a conversation.
- text0404 2y agohere's a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert this is a long-studied area with real and verifiable research. the "grocery stores" you're thinking of are liquor/corner stores, which are not adequate substitutes.
- cess11 2y agoIn which parts do you disagree with the history it narrates?
- theultdev 2y agoI disagree with the entire premise of the article. None of the facts they sprinkled in are relevant to their conclusions. What exactly do you find compelling from it?
- cess11 2y agoBe specific. Pick three parts of the history it narrates and explain how it is unfounded, deceitful or otherwise unreliable. Begin with a quote, then your criticism.
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- philk10 2y agono they dont so I'm outta here
- cess11 2y agoThe scientific literature on this is vast. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10693914/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10693914/
- theultdev 2y ago1. Have talking point. 2. Pay people to write paper about it. 3. Have shills link it everywhere for free.