The Racist Comment on BMI

The American Academy of Clinical Endocrinologist probably has the best stance on this. They're like, if you're BMI is between 21 and 30, you got to get a waist or conference or some other sort of secondary measure. It just brings unnecessary ire to like BMI in and of itself. Kettle is full background. Like I didn't do a deep dive on him as a person. I don't know if he was a bad dude. And it does seem likely to me that if using BMI alone, for like medical interventions or surgeries, likely some populations where unnecessarily and unequally affected.

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