I had a hard time reading this and not replacing Yale with US Govt whenever it came up. I can literally see them meddling in our lives to the point where they are actively depriving some people to eat while force-feeding others so we can all have an acceptable BMI. It is decreed that you must gain weight, now pack on “X” lbs until you are in an acceptable range.
And those who won’t concentrate and comply with what they are being told to do will be sent to concentration camps, for their own good of course.
Remember, the terrorists hate us because of our freedom…
Yale University Drops Threat to Kick Out Student for Being Too Skinny
By Beth Greenfield, Shine Staff | Healthy Living – 21 hours ago
Frances Chan. Photo: Facebook
A 92-pound Yale University student has finally ended her face-off with school officials who spent months insisting that she either gain weight or be suspended. And Frances Chan, 20, who contends she never had an eating disorder to begin with but is simply genetically thin, could not be more relieved.“It felt really bad to be this powerless,” the student told the New Haven Register Sunday. “I ate ice cream twice a day. I ate cookies. I used elevators instead of walking up stairs. But I don’t really gain any weight.”
Chan’s problems with the Ivy League school began back in September, when she went to Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven to have a breast lump checked. Though the lump was benign, it led to Yale Health, the student health center, scrutinizing her general health and, in particular, her low weight.“I met with a clinician on December 4 and was told that the ‘concern’ was my low weight and that I would meet with her for weekly weigh-ins. These appointments were not optional,” Chan writes in an essay about her experience, “Yale University Thinks I Have an Eating Disorder,” published by the Huffington Post in March. “The clinician threatened to put me on medical leave if I did not comply.” She goes on to explain that she’s “always been small,” just like the rest of her family.
“We all enjoy Mom’s fabulous cooking, which included Taiwanese beef noodle soup, tricolor pasta, strawberry cheesecake, and cream puffs, none of which make the Weight Watchers shortlist,” she writes. “I just don’t gain weight easily.” Chan could not be reached for comment by Yahoo Shine.
Yale University spokesperson Tom Conroy tells Yahoo Shine in an email, “Federal health regulations (HIPAA) prohibit Yale from discussing the health care of any individual, whether it’s a student or an employee, so we are unable to comment on Frances’s care.” But, he adds, “Yale provides exceptional health care services, and the health and welfare of all of our students is our primary concern.”
Chan says that since December she has had a slew of medical checkups, weekly weigh-ins and urine tests, and several blood tests and mental health appointments. On March 29 she posted a frustrated update on her Facebook page. “Yale Health’s Medical Director in email to my father: ‘She does not have the option of refusing to cooperate with our assessment of her health and safety.’ So I do NOT have the option of refusing dehumanizing medical treatment?! Looks like someone needs #consentworkshops.” Despite plying herself with high-calorie foods, she gained just 2 pounds, which, she was told, was not enough — even though her parents contacted officials to explain that their daughter had always been thin and healthy.
“It seems like assumptions were being made based on her appearance, and that it was very discriminatory. Low BMI doesn’t mean you’re unhealthy,” clinical psychologist Maria Rago, vice president of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, tells Yahoo Shine, adding, “Even if you have an eating disorder, you have a right to go to school.” Rago notes it’s clear the university means well. “But eating disorders are more about your behaviors and your thoughts than your weight,” she explains.
Finally, though, after Chan’s struggling with weigh-ins, pleading with doctors to not place so much emphasis on her body mass index, and eventually writing to university President Peter Salovey to apprise him of the situation, officials relented.
“Just visited Yale Health with my parents and met with a new doctor. She apologized repeatedly for the ‘months of anguish’ I went through and admitted that BMI is not the end all be all,” Chan posted to her Facebook page on Friday. “She also looked at my medical records since freshman year (which the previous clinician had not done) and noted that she saw that my weight had remained around the same. So she trusts that I do not have an eating disorder and admitted that ‘we made a mistake.’”
Original HERE.
This, the school stabbing and the Moochelle school-lunch travesty all make me think that now, today, really, truly, the world has gone insane.
That’s pretty funny. The Obesity lobby, which is yet another entitlement group desiring special rights and privileges, are forcing their agenda on everyone else. And nowhere is this more evident than at the pinnacle of liberalism, Ivy league schools. It’s socially acceptable to be a fat fucking slob in the USSA, and eat yourself into diabetes, heart disease, inflammation and being constantly sick, and a hundred other health problems that they make somebody else pay for. It’s disgusting what our country has become, and instead of doing something about the fat fucks, we go after people that are normal weight. Makes sense, that way people can continue eating themselves to death, be fat gluttonous slobs, and the corporate food and agriculture lobbies can continue to get $70 billion a year in food stamp money, and people can eat all they want until they’re so fat they can’t walk anymore. It takes about two seconds, walking around in public, to see what a degenerate, amoral sack of obese shit this country has become.
Balzytch
I think you would really get along with our good friend AWD. Maybe you two should meet up at a local McDonalds.
If I was in her shoes, I would have switched schools. I would reason that if an institution was this stupid, it was pretty useless to imagine I could learn anything from them.
Don’t have kids.
Admin,
Pretty soon bb is going to start asking how many abortions you have had.
Admin
The only rules on TBP is there are no rules.
The first rule of TBP is don’t talk about TBP, ummm wait i think i’ve mixed things up.
The first rule of TBP is that you should have ducked.
The second rule of TBP is no one gives a shit about your feelings.
The third rule of TBP is that rules 1 and 2 will be applied mercilessly.
The first rule of TBP is expect a goat fucking or ass rape.
Balzytch, I was thinking along those lines too! How come we have not heard of anyone being threatened with suspension for being too fat? Because they would slap a discrimination suit against the school lickety split, that’s why!
This country is so screwed up with body image it’s a wonder any girl (or boy for that matter) ever makes into adulthood without some kind of eating disorder.
Fast food and frankenfood is constantly on display while magazine covers depict photoshopped models that look plastic.
We don’t have an obesity epidemic, or an alzheimers epidemic, or a cholesterol epidemic. What we have is a SHIT FOOD CRISIS. Where farmers who want to sell raw milk are stormed by armed troopers yet Monsanto can use money and clout to poison our food supply.
Buy local.
Yale is 1 of the schools graduating egghead economists that thought sending US manufacturing to China was a good idea.
They never suspected it was a bad idea that would send all the USA’s $ to China. Housing bubble? Where?
Yale elite being taken surprise by a skinny Asian girl fits perfectly.
@Realestatepub Right on!
Absolutely. I’ve come to believe that the fat “slobs” surrounding us are literally being starved to death.
They eat thousands and thousands of carb calories, or dozens and dozens of chemicals, then they feel like shit so do not feel like moving.
Starved to obesity.
I don’t believe it is a coincidence that there is scientific proof that obesity lowers IQ. I also don’t believe it is a coincidence that it leads to a dozen high-priced medications with dozens and dozens of thousand dollar tests either.
It’s crazy. Most fat people I know are fat because they are always hungry (shit food), and the excess weight makes them less likely to stand up away from Candy Crush and Honey Boo Boo.
I’ll once again thank God, my guardian angels, and the universe, for making me sick enough to wake the fuck up before it became too late. Amen.