‘[The] AMA recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm’ and ‘its use for racist exclusion’
A national medical group declared that the Body Mass Index is “racist” and medical professionals should be educated on its dark history.
“Delegates at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates adopted [a] policy aimed at clarifying how body mass index (BMI) can be used as a measure in medicine,” the group announced.