Tag Archives: BMI

Breastfed babies can be fat… and perfectly healthy

I was invited to speak to my local group of Plunket nurses a few years back. I didn’t prepare anything specially for them, I simply rocked up and held a question-and-answer session. They were a fun bunch of ladies and I had a great time. But I left the session chewing my lip, worried aboutContinue reading “Breastfed babies can be fat… and perfectly healthy”

Of course I eat cake

I was at an office morning tea last week and, being quite hungry, I chowed down on a piece of chocolate cake. Later on, a woman I didn’t know sat next to me and started on her own piece of cake. Because I do a fair bit of education work, people tend to know thatContinue reading “Of course I eat cake”

Why BMI is bullshit

In 2019, I wrote an opinion piece for the New Zealand Medical Journal about why I don’t think BMI has a place in the health and wellbeing check for our four-year-olds. You can read the full thing here. It must have been a slow news day when it came out, because I had my twoContinue reading “Why BMI is bullshit”