{"id":3798,"date":"2007-10-31T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/31\/bmi-is-bullshit-now-with-photos\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T18:32:43","slug":"bmi-is-bullshit-now-with-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"BMI Is Bullshit: Now With Photos!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Kate Harding at Shakesville<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So, the “Guess The Rotund’s Height and Weight” game<\/a> gave me an idea. (Oh, and hey, if you want to see a scatter graph of the results, there’s one here now<\/a>.) I talk a lot about how BMI is bullshit, but we all know talk is cheap. Photos of people who actually fall into each category, however? Say a lot.<\/p>\n

Thus, I have created the Illustrated BMI Categories Project<\/a>, to demonstrate just what “normal” and “overweight” and “morbidly obese” really look like. I’ll continue to add photos until people stop sending them — if you’d like to participate, please send a (worksafe) photo along with your true height and weight to katesblog at gmail dot com. I may not use all the ones I get, but I appreciate the courage of anyone willing to send one. (Oh, and I’m also creating a general Shapely Prose<\/a> Readers photostream, so let me know if you want to be in that.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s really awesome.<\/p>\n

TRIGGER WARNING<\/strong>: However, please keep in mind that it features photos of people of different body types along with their weights. As Mandolin writes in comments, “I really appreciate this project, but you might want to put a trigger warning in the post. Weights are listed with the photographs and that can be problematic for people who are still dealing with vestiges of a disordered mindset.”<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Sailorman<\/a> for the tip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Kate Harding at Shakesville: So, the “Guess The Rotund’s Height and Weight” game gave me an idea. (Oh, and hey, if you want to see a scatter graph of the results, there’s one here now.) I talk a lot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}