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anotherdumbcaucasian t1_iup2oyu wrote

>Over the past few years, the Nutrition and Food Sciences Department at UVM has shifted away from a weight-normative mindset, adopting a weight-inclusive approach to teaching dietetics.

So this article was written by people who think a 50 BMI is perfectly healthy, normal, and that a 50 BMI person shouldn't be medically or socially encouraged to lose any weight whatsoever?

>the most popular videos glorifying weight loss and positioning food as a means to achieve health and thinness

Are they trying to say that having a healthy diet and eating at a caloric deficit to lose weight isn't healthy or the only way to lose weight that's supported by evidence? I'm not saying the fad diets a lot of these vids are likely pushing are good, but to suggest that health can't be improved through improving your diet or losing weight is ridiculous. Whoever wrote this article must be very flexible with all this stretching.

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Altruistic-Goose5114 t1_iuq3po6 wrote

I'm going to give the researchers the benefit of the doubt and assume that by "shifted away from a weight-normative mindset, adopting a weight-inclusive approach to teaching dietetics" they mean that diets should be specifically tailored according to the individual. A 25 year old athletic man who's 6'8" will require a vastly different diet from a 5'1" 60 year old woman even if they're both the same BMI. Many of these videos push a one-size-fits-all approach which won't work for everyone.

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morebass t1_iupxros wrote

> So this article was written by people who think a 50 BMI is perfectly healthy, normal, and that a 50 BMI person shouldn't be medically or socially encouraged to lose any weight whatsoever?

Is it? Can you define weight-inclusive and the weight-normative approachs to patient health as well as their outcomes with regards to weight, physical, and mental health?

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