More evidence for scrapping BMI

Victoria Spence

With calls for the Body Mass Index (BMI) to be scrapped, one woman shares her experience of being refused treatment for an eating disorder because her BMI wasn’t considered to be low enough.

Victoria Spence tells the BBC how she had to seek private treatment to get on the road to recovery after a doctor told her she had more weight to lose before being eligible for treatment.

CLICK HERE for the BBC article.

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