
The Body Mass Index
Maintenance Phase
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Is There a Difference Between a Number and a Scale?
"i think so much of it is like the fact that our country is dominated by men, and there's like something sort of that feels valid about a number," she says. "We don't do a really good job of taking in research results without turning them into individual mandates." She adds: "The failings of the b i are mostly failings of humans,. Which makes it really fucking challenging to talk about this stuff when it gets presented as like it's just capital t capital s the science'
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