Experts Available to Discuss: Who Says Americans Are Too Fat?

ExpertSource: TOPIC: As a recent Newsweek article states, "it's hardly clear that there actually is an obesity epidemic, or that fat people are at greater risk of death than people of normal weight, or that weight loss-relentlessly promoted by public-health officials as the solution to America's weight problem-is an attainable goal at all." The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and other institutions tend to use BMI, or body mass index, as a tool to evaluate degree of fatness in the population. (BMI uses an individual's height and weight to calculate a single number.) But Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, has coauthored a controversial study...

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