BMI as School Content: a Practice that We Need to Review

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I remember my basic teacher measuring and weighing at a public school in Valdivia from a very young age. We were more than 40 children in the room. One by one, he would write down our data and tell us who was “very low weight” or “weighted” according to our stature. Every year, without fail. And I didn’t do it with bad intention. I did it with the tools that existed in the 1990s and with what she had also been taught. Years later, in 2003, I was…