Dr. Asha. Let's go back to the beginning. So Dr. Asha, posted on Dr. Ashes pronouns he they on the Instagrams, I love that Asha posts what they put on Twitter because I'm not on Twitter on Instagram. I really appreciate it when people do that. So I'm gonna read this. And this inspired me I was like, I need to talk about PII at school. Okay, so from Asha, my son just found out that the whole school cross country event is optional. He has been stressing about it for weeks, can anyone relate? I can trace a lot of my body and self esteem issues back to school, be eating teachers are a bit like doctors, I think most of them aren't knowledgeable enough to understand that being able to run long distances or easily managed 20 Press ups, or play a sport well, has literally nothing to do with a person's physical health. They teach kids that lack of sporting ability makes them inferior. And kids pick up on this. I'm no good at sports equal i equals, I'm a less worthy human being. I'm no good at running equals, I'm not healthy. I'm slower than everyone else equals, I'm less deserving of respect, dignity and kindness. My son remembers a time his class were made up made to run to K every few weeks in PE. And his teacher used to tell them that anyone who took longer than 10 minutes was unfit. My son was usually the slowest. And the teacher would use him as an example of what not to be like, true story. Doctors are similar. If you don't look healthy, then you can't be healthy, whatever that means. If you don't look healthy, then you're less worthy or wealthy respect or care, you're to blame for your own symptoms. And then you can be cured by changing the way you look. Because that's all being fat is you get that right. BMI. BMI is literally a measure of body size. It's not even a measure of body fat. It doesn't predict any type of health example 30% People with a BMI of up to 30 are metabolically healthy, and 30% with a BMI of 20 to 25 are not. Whilst the incidence of certain diseases are disproportionately higher in people with larger bodies. This is just as likely to be due to poor medical care and neglect as it is anything else. There's no evidence that fat is inherently bad for you. Please don't embarrass yourselves by mentioning this visceral fat fat around the heart or weight on the joints because I can and if I can be bothered will school you. There's no evidence that weight loss improves morbidity or mortality. Ultimately, this all comes down to bias and discrimination society functions when one group is considered morally physically intellectually superior to another. The superior group gets to hoard the wealth, resources and power by oppressing the inferior group. So next time a PE teacher decides to shit on a kid for being slow. Remember, it's just because they wish to continue to benefit from privilege. And in order to do this, they have to play their role in oppressing others. Same goes for doctors. It's a power thing, not a health thing. Yes, times a billion. And then people came into the comments of that post and, and said, yep, yep, yep, this is my experience, blah, buddy, bloop, bloop, I'm gonna put the link for that post in the notes. If you want to share your story, or if you want to say hi to Asher or whatever. Ash is awesome. And I wondered, What are your experiences and so something that I love doing you were doing love doing you I do love doing you are what I love doing is asking you lot you you are a whole lot about what your experiences are. So did some questions, do some polls, and let's talk about that. But also, I want to weave in some other stuff, studies, articles, etc. So let's start with this piece from where is it from the Atlantic, the Atlantic, hey, little tip for you yet, if you ever have an article that's behind a paywall, save this address this web address in your browser and use it, it will bring up that thing from behind the paywall. That address is archive dot p h, archive dot p h, you can archive a WebPart page and also you can bring up archived and if if the posts if they are from a well known source, they're going to be archived multiple times over so if someone has made a change to an article, you know, four Oh 10, then they would have the three o'clock and they'll have the five o'clock version, etc. For some smaller sites, it's more like every few days, but it's like an automatic thing. They're scraping the web as some might not be on there because there might be some really obscure sources. But anyway, things like the Atlantic, which I had reached my maximum free articles archive.ph Thank me later. Okay, so from the Atlantic gym class is so bad kids are skipping school to avoid it. Not only just PE do little to improve physical fitness, but it can also lead to truancy and other disciplinary problems. So here's a quote from the article. I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read. I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read by the way, trigger warning. A lot of the sources I mentioning will have the Oh words. A lot of them are like, PS bad, but I mean, we have to make the fat kids thin. So walking away, can we do it to shame them? So just Just a warning about those. So not only does PE do let it away? Yeah, I've already read that. But it's almost too easy to satirize physical education better known by its eye roll inducing abbreviation PE, from clueless to Superbad to Spider Man homecoming, parodies of gym class Class class are a pop culture, darling. Perhaps that's because they speak to one of America's fundamental truths. For many kids. Pe is terrible. I think this is really talking about I think PE can be terrible for kids of all sizes, right? Obviously, I'm speaking as a fat person, but I'm sure I remember. Yes, I remember my so I hang out when I was in secondary school. My my, my group were three other people, three of a three other people, three of the girls. And they were all thin, and they were all bad at PE and they didn't like it. So you know, like we were the quote nerds because we will build up a ye. Anyway. So a recent working paper focused on a massive PN PE initiative in Texas captures this reality analyzing data out of the states Texas fitness now program. So there's a program that was a program called Texas fitness now sounds horrific, a $37 million endeavor to improve middle schoolers fitness, academic achievement and behavior by requiring them to participate in PE every day. The researchers concluded that the daily mandate didn't have any positive impact on kids health or educational outcome. On the contrary, they found that the program which ran from 2007 to 2011 actually had detrimental effects correlating with uptick in discipline and absence rates.