It was also never designed, tested or adjusted for women. So what researchers have found is that it may actually actively be harming the health of people of color and black folks and indigenous folks for whom it was never designed and was never tested or meaningfully adjusted for. And its reliability goes down from there. doesn't distinguish between fat or muscle or any of that stuff. So we're talking about, exclusively, the bodies of white western European men from closer to 200 than 100 years ago, and we have continued to use that. It was developed by a mathematician, statistician and astronomer, and he was working exclusively with data from French and Scottish military conscripts in the 1800s. The BMI was not developed by a healthcare provider. On the myth of the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a reliable indicator of health What kind of green spaces do you have in your neighborhood? What are your parents' income when you were born? What kind of neighborhood were you raised in? All of those have really powerful impacts on the size of our bodies, and none of those really have to do with our individual choices in adulthood. There are major contributing factors like genetics, environment, specific health conditions like polycystic ovarian syndrome and lymphedema – and social determinants of health. But researchers have been clear for years that our body size isn't solely or even primarily the result of our own choices. Some folks do choose fatness and some folks don't choose fatness. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. She talked to NPR about some of these myths, the many ways they affect fat people and the importance of the word "fat" as a neutral descriptor.
"Anti-fatness is a sort of web of beliefs, interpersonal practices, institutional policies that are designed to keep fat people on the margins," she told NPR.Īlong with that bias comes a whole lot of myths about fat people, many of which Gordon debunks in her new book You Just Need To Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People. They're the kind of conversations that writer and podcast host Aubrey Gordon knows all too well, ones that she says are rooted in anti-fatness. New Year's resolutions to go to the gym, to eat differently, to lose weight. Every January, it seems the topics of weight and size come up over and over.
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