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Weight of our weight

Did you know that all this weight matters came from insurance companies?

So many people believe in these charts without knowing where it came from.

1942 Louise Dublin, a statistician at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, divide people into categories based on their weight and height. He promotes the idea that the concept of ideal weight charts and associate with mortality risks.

Other insurance companies were also agreeing with these charts.

Many experts were criticising these tables for several reasons, but as you see – we still use them and it is doing more harm as good to us all....

So, as you can see – a lot of economically driven information were pushed on us...

We must learn to question and to think more critically about these charts and start debating and maybe it will change in the future

Let’s not weight our worth!!!!

What can we all do about it?????? 

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To be honest i kleft it a

Submitted on June 9th, 2010

To be honest i kleft it a year coming to treatment until i fit the weight and nearly worked harder to be sicker before i felt like i deserved treatment. i remember standing out side the door thinkin oh gos they will think im been silly i dont look thin enough. but then was suprised when suddenely it became about and mental health even more suprised to hear how serious it was cause i wasnt that thin..... but in the year i waited to come and ask for help i have now accumalate smo pretty serious long term consequences. shouldn health and how bad our heads are not if we fit in a box?  dont we caost the state more the sicker we are, like more funding needed, etc...

 

and as for docters after been misdiagnosed twice and told to cop on wheni was  after seeing tarek and have him tell me or a therapist tell it makes it so much harder to accept and believe as others where wrong.

i  dunno charts and boxs and levels of who deserves what all make it harder to ask for help, accept ya have a problem, and to stay in recovery i find.