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God forbid that you actually openly communicate with a woman!
  • I think you're making this out to be a bigger deal than it is. They've explicitly said the community is welcoming of all women, and the name is in reference to the old Reddit community. I'm trans myself fyi

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    Federal government to announce details of dental insurance plan
  • Wouldn't that mean less people will be covered over time? If it stays at 90k and wages go up eventually then more people will be over the threshold

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    U.S. Adult Obesity Rate (2012 vs 2022)
  • I wouldn't say it's useless since it does show a trend of overall weight gain, but yes it can be misleading when the average person still equates BMI and health

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    U.S. Adult Obesity Rate (2012 vs 2022)
  • I read the article, but I'm not seeing how the metric itself is racist? It's not actually explained, just that it has racist origins (created using white ppl as the reference point) and the application of it as a standard of overall health can have racist applications, which I definitely agree with.

    The thing is though, the graph above isn't a graph of "health of American states over time", it's a graph of BMI over time. I think we're mostly just arguing semantics at this point because the original person I replied to was equating normal BMI range = healthy which isn't what's shown here and is unrelated

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    U.S. Adult Obesity Rate (2012 vs 2022)
  • BMI isn't an indicator of health though, which is exactly what the study says. It's simply a measurement of body mass, which doesn't account for other factors

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    U.S. Adult Obesity Rate (2012 vs 2022)
  • BMI is a good metric for populations as there are very few athletes at that elite level compared to obese people. At an individual level it can be misleading if you're an athlete with a high muscle to body fat ratio

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