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Inventor Calls For President Biden To Recognize BMI Failure, Confronts Federal Health Agency With FOIA

In August 2022, Centers For Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/us/politics/cdc-rochelle-walensky-covid.html confessed that the agency failed in its COVID-19 response. Then she promised to do better for Monkey Pox, but still no word about the key issue that will sink us as a nation: a majority of Americans are obese.

Joan Breibart, an inventor with nine patents for various exercise apparatus and the founder of the PhysicalMind Institute, has asked for President Joe Biden and the CDC to own up to their mistakes in a FOIA request (attached) that demands the rationale for the agency’s commitment to antiquated health measurements that deceive the public.

While the CDC has made Americans weight complacent, the World Health Organization has exposed our permissive Body Mass Index (BMI), which is the basis for the CDC’s fraudulent obesity statistics.

The media only knows what the CDC has fed them: 40 percent of Americans are at risk for diabetes, heart disease, strokes, and more. Douglas Murray writing in the New York Post cites the 40 percent figure and the 800,000 deaths from Covid due to size: https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/talk-about-the-deadly-obesity-risks-fat-chance/

In 1985, the CDC dropped the valued Ideal Body Weight (IBW) measurement and substituted it with the BMI, aka “grading on a curve.” As a result, when COVID hit America, the CDC’s reliance on the antiquated BMI measurement led to deaths and millions of unnecessary hospitalizations because of its false assurance that people were fitter than they actually were,” Breibart said.

“Dr. Anthony Fauci, who may never have had an extra pound on his frame, knows that waistlines of 35” for women and 40” men vastly increased the chances of suffering from a respiratory virus. He could have advised America to get out their tape measures and find out their own risk of serious COVID-19 complications,” Breibart said,

Today, the average American female waistline measures 38.7 inches and 41 inches for males. And there’s more: 100 million Americans have fatty liver disease, 86 million are pre-diabetic, and 37.3 million have diabetes. Plus, an additional 1 in 5 Americans have diabetes, but don’t know it.

“Using waistline circumference as the correct measure, American obesity is estimated at 64 percent,” Breibart said. “The Biden Administration must use waistline circumference as the critical measure in place of BMI, and their lack of attention to this issue is leading to more deaths due to lulling the public into a false sense of security about their waistlines.”

While the new Wellness industry has been a major success with projected revenues of $7 trillion by 2025, is it in danger of killing the goose that laid the golden egg? “Yes, we all know that dead people have very little purchasing power,” Breibart joked.

October 6, 2022
Via email: FOIARequests@cdc.gov

Mr. Roger Andoh CDC/ATSDR FOIA Officer Attn: FOIA Office, MS-D54 1600 Clifton Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30333

Re: Freedom of Information Act Request Expedited Processing Requested

Dear Mr. Andoh:

The mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC “) is to “provide health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats.” Mission, Role and Pledge, CDC (May 13, 2019), https://perma.cc/68ZC-YQ8X.

Briefly stated, I believe the CDC is not providing the public with accurate and trustworthy information associated with obesity measurement.

Accordingly, we seek the release of the following information:

1. Explanation for the CDC’s use of BMI as the measurement metric for weight classes for underweight; overweight; obese; morbidly obese.

2. Rationale for the CDC’s refusal to switch to waistline circumference as the critical measurement, as used by the United States Air Force.

Considering the urgent public interest in information from the CDC regarding these important health concerns, we ask that you prioritize and produce on a rolling-basis records responsive to the first two items of the request.

We also ask that you disclose all segregable portions of otherwise exempt records. See 5 U.S.C. § 552(b). We also ask that you provide responsive electronic records in their native file format. See 5 U.S.C. §

552(a)(3)(B). Alternatively, please provide the records electronically in a text-searchable, static-image format (e.g., PDF), in the best image quality in the agency’s possession, and in separate, Bates-stamped files.

We further request a waiver of document search, review, and duplication fees on the grounds that disclosure of the requested record is in the public interest and that disclosure is “likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government and is not primarily in the commercial interest of the requester.” 5 U.S.C.

§ 552(a)(4)(A)(iii).
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
If you wish to discuss this request, please contact the undersigned, via phone or email. Very truly yours,

Joan Breibart

PhysicalMind Institute

(212) 343-2150

joan@pmiemail.com