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1/ BMI is complete made-up bullshit & the NHS's obsession with weight add the cause of every single health condition means that people are denied treatments that are a hell of a lot more effective that weight loss https://twitter.com/sipping_theT/status/1288144465299943429
2/ I don't talk about this much, but the only known 'cure' for my condition is weight loss. So many other women with IIH are told that weight loss is the cause of their condition when there's no known cause. This rhetoric is harmful, causes disordered eating
3/ & prevents further research being done into the causes, not to mention gatekeeps sight-saving treatments if you haven't 'lost enough weight'. So many people (INCLUDING CHILDREN) are told that weight is the cause of their condition when in fact
4/ they are perfectly healthy and losing weight could have detrimental effects on them. I, for one, was told to lose weight or risk permanent eye damage and it completely undid years worth of work on how I view my body and my size. We as a society need to do better.
