Post: #1

Apparently, according to the geniuses at Yale University, anybody under a certain BMI has an eating disorder and needs to be force fed, even if they actually don't have an eating disorder.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-ch...21382.html

Thankfully, there are overlord fatties to make sure that nobody can (physically) slip through the cracks:

Quote:The nurse looked at me apprehensively. "It's easy to gain a couple pounds. What I'm afraid will happen is that you'll lose it again and you'll just be cheating yourself."

I couldn't keep the impatience out of my tone. "So you're just going to keep checking on me until I graduate?"

"If we don't tackle your low weight now, it will kill you."

She is 5'2" and weighs 90lbs. I'm sure a number of members here have known girls around that height and weight. I knew a 5'3" of 93 lbs. Thin, yes. Anorexic, no.

Quote:I was forced to see a mental health professional. She asked me all of the standard questions -- how I felt about my body, how many calories I ate. I told her everyone's body is beautiful, including mine. When I said I didn't know how many calories, since I don't care to count, she rephrased the question, as if that would help.

She even recounts feminist propaganda, stating that "every body is beautiful." Not good enough.

She isn't the first, though, the comment section yields another example of a woman bullied into eating more.

Further investigation shows that this is not recent:

http://yaleherald.com/featured/the-skinn...-anorexia/

Alice, a gymnist, was actually told not to work out because she was too skinny. This, of course, besides the fact that she shares a BMI with olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin. Another person in this article is shared, by the name of Stacy. She outlines the harassment.

Quote:At each of her weekly sessions with YUHS, which she now terms “weigh-ins,” Stacy was given a target weight to aim for the following week. According to Stacy, the inability to raise her BMI sufficiently, by YUHS standards, stemmed from this newly formed anxiety and a genetic predisposition toward skinniness. “Generally speaking, the women in my family are really skinny until marriage, when they start to put on padding,” Stacy joked.

Toward the end of the semester, Stacy was informed that if she kept failing to reach YUHS’ goals for her, she would be withdrawn for the following semester—no matter how superbly she was performing in other areas. Stacy’s impression of YUHS was that “there was no way to get around” its strict guidelines, not even with the help of a dean.

Of course, the University is concerned about...

Quote:“That’s why it may seem that some of the policies are heavy-handed,” Sledge said, “because they don’t want the individuals to get nutritionally compromised.”

Nutritionally compromised? Start by tackling the fatties. You know what would be refreshing? Mandatory weigh-ins, exercise, nutrition and the threat of expulsion for people with a body fat percentage over 12%.

Post: #2

I really hope someone starts a protest against this

Post: #3

And my fellow Americans wonder why I tell them I don't want to live in this country.

Post: #4

Post: #5

I had a dream last night. The world was batshit crazy and nothing was right. When I woke up this morning, I realized that the real world is actually crazier than the world in my dreams. Thank you Yale for confirming this.

Not going to complain though. I'd rather profit from this than let it ruin a good day.

Post: #6

You know the feeling when something makes you so incredibly furious that you can't even react?

Post: #7

This is the most retarded shit I ever read. The funny thing is, a few threads down, Yale is on the list of colleges with hot and smart girls.

Post: #8

Whatever happened to "health at every size"?

Post: #9

(04-07-2014 06:47 PM)Shrodax Wrote:  Whatever happened to "health at every size"?

these crazy hoes don't know what they want!

Post: #10

90 lbs at 5'2" is pretty skinny, but certainly not unhealthy. I've dated mostly short girls, several of them at 5'2", and 100lbs seems to be a pretty ideal weight. Over 105 and they start to get chubby upper arms.

Post: #11

(04-07-2014 06:47 PM)Shrodax Wrote:  Whatever happened to "health at every size"?

My thought as well. 20 points above the healthy BMI range and everybody better accept you as you are. Less than 2 points below and you better get help 'cause you're just not right in the head.

Post: #12

She should really sue them I imagine she could get a stupid settlement.

Post: #13

Every year, 0.00673% of deaths are caused by anorexia.

18.2% of deaths are caused by carrying excess weight.

Post: #14

(04-07-2014 07:47 PM)Collide Wrote:  Every year, 0.00673% of deaths are caused by anorexia.

18.2% of deaths are caused by carrying excess weight.

Mind citing a source? I'm not doubting you, just curious.



Back on topic:

The issue is that people who don't eat enough can directly through their actions, kill themselves. Lack of electrolytes and other issues, starvation IS a method of suicide.

Getting fat, INDIRECTLY kills the person through complications like diabetes, which THEN kills the fat person. It's one step removed.

I'd love to see mandatory weigh ins for fat women. Good lord the women who I work with are almost universally fat.

Post: #15

(04-07-2014 08:20 PM)Tytalus Wrote:  Mind citing a source? I'm not doubting you, just curious.

Anorexia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012

Quote:Data from over 10 million death records (all National Center for Health Statistic registered deaths in the USA for 1986-90) were examined for mention of anorexia nervosa as a primary or contributing cause of death. Only 724 were found, which equals an average of 145 annual deaths, and a rate of 6.73 per 100,000 deaths.

Obesity: http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaike...-or-obese/

Quote:In a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health, a team of researchers led by epidemiologist Ryan K. Masters looked at death records and health surveys for all adults for a 20-year period between 1986 and 2006. They found that 18.2 percent of all deaths were associated with carrying excess weight.

Post: #16

That is just absolutely retarded. Imagine the outrage if they forced the fat kids to lose weight.

(04-07-2014 07:47 PM)Collide Wrote:  Every year, 0.00673% of deaths are caused by anorexia.

18.2% of deaths are caused by carrying excess weight.

However Anorexia is a much more serious disease than obesity. If you develop anorexia, you're much more likely to die within a year than if you became obese. It's just that a lot, lot less people develop anorexia.

Post: #17

Yeah, but if you develop anorexia you also have a much better chance of dating Tuth. It's a fair trade off.

Post: #18

BMI is a flawed metric and was steadily being tossed aside in the health community for some time. Only with the rise of fatties and fat acceptance have you seen it creep back into the mainstream. BMI largely harps on petite or big/tall/built/muscular people by messing up their index numbers. Nearly all of the NFL would be considered "obese" even though 90% of the league is in the top .01% of fitness levels in America. Aside from a few lineman whom are fatties the rest of the league is on some ungodly levels of fitness, but not according to BMI.

So this Yale witch hunt basically goes after all petite women whom by the nature of being small will clock in at smaller scale sizes. I've never met a petite girl whom wasn't fat over 110 pounds the girl I know at 5 feet is around 110, probably could loose 5-7 pounds, but half of her literally is tits and they probably add on 20lbs alone.

The ideal way to screen is body fat percentage. Any girl whom is rack thin will have next to no fat on her since that is what she is obsessing to loose. These cows won't go after that though because it would unmask the reality that fat bitches are just as mentally deranged as anorexic women. I can't understand how plowing ice cream and chips into all day long is sane and healthy.

These fatties have to much power. They won't stop until dudes stop fucking them. I'm serious. The next ROK campaign should tell men to refrain from ever fucking fatties. Only way I can see these cows getting their act together.

Post: #19

I have two plans to beat this.

Plan 1:
Hold a cupcake drive citing some BS study saying that women make 50% less than men so women get 50% off the price of cupcakes. Fatties will go bananas over half price cupcakes, go into a sugar coma, and lose interest. This should be done weekly.

Plan 2:
Hold a marching rally supporting thin students. Fatties will get out of breath, sweaty, and tired and will lose interest. The more hills the better.

Post: #20

^^ Lol.

Fatties are good at sitting around and yelling and typing stuff. They only became a force when lazy things such as blogging/writing from home became the norm. Remember when you had to travel to Library to research something ? Fatties had no drive to do that shit. When slacktivism got the tech boost you saw the droves of cows bellowing overnight.

If you make them run up hills they will just write a bunch of shit to demonizes you and then their thinner counterparts will come as protest you instead.

Post: #21

(04-07-2014 08:39 PM)Collide Wrote:  

(04-07-2014 08:20 PM)Tytalus Wrote:  Mind citing a source? I'm not doubting you, just curious.

Anorexia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012

Quote:Data from over 10 million death records (all National Center for Health Statistic registered deaths in the USA for 1986-90) were examined for mention of anorexia nervosa as a primary or contributing cause of death. Only 724 were found, which equals an average of 145 annual deaths, and a rate of 6.73 per 100,000 deaths.

Obesity: http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaike...-or-obese/

Quote:In a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health, a team of researchers led by epidemiologist Ryan K. Masters looked at death records and health surveys for all adults for a 20-year period between 1986 and 2006. They found that 18.2 percent of all deaths were associated with carrying excess weight.

Thanks for the sources. Note that the anorexia CAUSED the deaths, but obesity was ASSOCIATED with the deaths. Different levels of perceived causation.

Getting fat CAN kill (eventually), but it's not certain that it WILL kill you. Not eating WILL kill you.

Hmm. Food for thought.

Post: #22

I'd probably be expelled from this university too. What a dystopian world that we live in.

Post: #23

Very sad state of affairs, this is what happens when you give hamsters power. They try and take everyone jump onto the hamster wheel. Over the next few decades this shit is going to get worse. I'm leaving the west this year anyway, it's beyond saving.

Post: #24

Setting a dangerous precedent here.

Telling someone to count calories when they dont even know the meaning of it is bound to lead to more problems.

Telling someone to eat more "or else" will also lead to problems.


All I see is a nanny state which took one person who for all other purposes is a rarity on campus and made an example out of her. Would they do the same for a 5'2" 200lbs+ woman on campus? I very much doubt it.

Post: #25

If someone harasses you of having a low BMI just lift weights and your BMI will go up from muscles.

Of course this is only a temporary solution. By 2050, in all countries that are not China, North Korea, Russia or not annexed by Russia you will go to jail, where you will be forcefully fed if your weight allows you to walk with your own legs without help of an electronic personal transportation device. Produced by Apple. With chip and transmitter to NSA implanted.