Abcarian: Ozempic for weight loss is all the rage, but so is fighting fatphobia (via latimesopinion)
Since October 2020, Gordon has co-hosted the popular podcastwith the journalist Michael Hobbes. They take on what they call the “wellness industrial complex” and the many ways in which the conventional wisdom about health and weight spring more from wishful thinking and bias than reality.
“It was,” she writes, “never intended as a measure of individual body fat, build or health. To its inventor, the BMI was a way of measuring populations, not individuals, designed for the purposes of statistics, not individual health.”
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