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Affirmative Action Now Applied to Body Mass Index
There seems to be no standard that the liberal ruling class will not lower or distort in the interests of imposing racial equality. This now extends even to weight metrics:
A United Kingdom (U.K.) government-funded study calls for adjusting a measurement used to determine obesity to correct for differences across ethnic groups.
The race-based adjustments lower the Body Mass Index (BMI) for children of African descent, making them seem thinner, while raising the BMI of children of South Asian descent. Scientists studied children of various ethnic groups between the ages of 4 and 12, and developed a race-based technique to “adjust” BMI definitions to ethnicity.
The new adjustments mean black children are less likely to be classified as overweight or obese than a white or Asian child with the same BMI. The researchers urge the adoption of these new altered standards for the entire U.K, as they “reflect body fat more accurately.”
Or if not more accurately, at least more politically correctly.
In the U.S., more than 75 percent of African American adults are overweight or obese, making them almost 1.5 times more likely to be obese than white adults.
Could it be that blacks tend to be “oppressed” for some of the same reasons they tend to be overweight? Lest people give too much thought to that question, the disparity needs to be erased by adjusting standards.
On a tip from rpp618.
Source: http://moonbattery.com/?p=82486
