NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A Yale student says the school has dropped its months-long demand that she gain weight or leave the university.
Twenty-year-old history major Frances Chan told the New Haven Register (https://bit.ly/1elaXRN ) that her new Yale physician told her on Friday that university officials made a mistake and no longer believe she has an eating disorder. She had been stuffing her face with ice cream and other snacks to try to gain weight.
Chan is 5-feet-2-inches tall and 92 pounds. She says she’s always been very thin but healthy.
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She says Yale Health officials had placed too much emphasis on body-mass index as a health indicator, but her new doctor acknowledged that BMI isn’t the only significant factor.
Yale spokesman Tom Conroy says the university cannot comment because of medical privacy regulations.
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Information from: New Haven Register, https://www.nhregister.com
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