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Kids in Larger Bodies Do Worse in School. One Reason May Be Teacher Bias (www.teenvogue.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/lifestyle

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[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Overweight literally means over the weight that you should be. If you have a high BMI but are super muscly then you aren't overweight.

Measurements that only account for BMI might say you are but that's just a limitation of the measurement method. You can use body fat measurement, hip waist ratios etc. to get a more precise idea of whether you are overweight.

There's no issue with the word "overweight" anyway.

[–] GetOffMyLan 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Exactly my point, thank you. You can't tell what weight someone should be without knowing all those things.

So calling someone overweight without those is completely subjective. Therefor the OC I was replying to is wrong that the word overweight was appropriate and exactly why they worded it the way they did.

As I replied to the other commenter. I had a friend in school who was chubby in appearance and would have suffered the bias this post is talking about but he was insanely healthy and not overweight if you correctly measured his muscles and build.