Is BMI the Best Tool to Determine Healthy Weight?
Body Mass Index is thus the ratio to body weight (measured in kilograms) to height (measured in meters). It is a simple numerical measurement that enables the classification of people on the basis of their body composition.
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Glow up journal
Part 3
I know BMI is kinda bullshit, but I can't help but be happy that I'm officially not overweight anymore.
Hope you all having a good day too!
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Food for thought...
I’s like to point out that I think someone needs to educate authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman on a person’s healthy body weight when it comes to Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance.
According to his stats on page 22 of the 1984 D&D Module: DL 5-Dragons of Mystery, he’s 5′9″ weighing in at 135 pounds. They repeatedly hammer home how sickly, frail, and skeletal he his throughout the books like he’s something abhorrent to look at.
Well, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s BMI chart, our buddy Raistlin comes in at a 19.9 on the scale. On the lowish end of normal...
This leaves me to wonder how people viewed skinny people in the 80s with so many macho man bulgy muscle flicks like Conan the Barbarian and the like...
Anyway, images as proof:
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more Gin Ichimaru headcanons that No One asked for (1/2)
(This post is about Gin Ichimaru from BLEACH. It is talking about eating disorders so TW for talk about weight, mental health, and self-destructive behavior)
Gin has an eating disorder.
Or, has cycled through many eating disorders over the years.
Let me list some canon traits he has that could mean he has a disorder (with pictures!).
First off, and most obvious: He's abnormally thin. I mean, just look at his wrists? Also his narrower face, prominent collar bones and jugular.
His actual personality isn't known, even though he was well known by his squad, popular in the Soul Society and could even be considered friends other squad captains. "Gin" was simply a character for the outside world. This can be a sign of emotional isolation, which individuals with eating disorders tend to do as these disorders can have feeling of hopelessness and low self-esteem. It can also be attributed to people who struggle with depression, anxiety, and trauma.
In Gin's case I attribute him hiding his true self to his possible insecurities and lower self esteem (you can also say he has had lots of pressure on him because of his prodigy status in the academy). High expectations and stereotypes can lead to imposter syndrome, low self esteem, and a desire for control in one's life. That control is often found in the restriction of food and the numbers on a scale...
Even Rangiku, (regardless of what he believed he needed to keep secret from her because of Aizen) didn't know basic things about his life, it could mean he possibly didn't think he was good enough for her. I assume that she didn't know much about his life during captaincy because when we get flashbacks from her life that involve Gin, he is usually portrayed as his child self. Everything Rangiku believes and knows about Gin is from their childhood together (The Gin we see in her vision, after the battle with Aizen, while she's standing outside the cave Toshiro is training in, is still her imagination based on child Gin).
He really really likes persimmons. You may be thinking "Alice that general Gin Knowledge that's his biggest personality point" and you're right. But if I stretch it a bit, it's his safe food. He eats mostly persimmons (besides from the fact that it's probably the only thing he could get as a child) and he made sure that the 3rd division filled it's garden with the trees. Many people with eating disorders have a food they are hyper-focused on. Also, he was known to give out the persimmons whenever he "dried too many" (Bleach Official Bootleg). Perhaps they were a binge trigger?
TW AND NOTE (AGAIN):
FROM HERE I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT BMI AND EXACT HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS.
NOTE: GIN ICHIMARU IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER AND IS IN NO WAY CONNECTED TO REALITY AND HUMAN PHYSICAL HEALTH.
I UNDERSTAND BMI IS NOT A MEASURE OF ONE'S PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH. FOR THE SAKE OF MY ARGUMENT, I WILL BE CALCULATING GIN'S BMI FROM THE DATA PROVIDED ON HIS WIKI PAGE
Gin's BMI (using the most recent BMI calculator) at 73 inches and 152lbs is 19.15. The underweight BMI point range for adult males is 17.501-20.70.
According to BMI, Gin is classified as underweight.
Remember "less than 6% of people with eating disorders are medically diagnosed as “underweight.” Nevertheless, if we take in his BMI when looking at the possibility of him having an eating disorder (and not, say, just a fast metabolism) all of these observations lead me to believe that he is affected by either anorexia or bulimia.
And that is all for canon evidence that sparked my headcanon
Headcanon coming up in part 2
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if my mom calls me fat one more goddamn time i'm gonna ugly cry right to her face. like nothing else i did so far worked, talking, yelling, making a sad or angry expression, not reacting at all, so who knows, maybe this will finally shut her up
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