In 2013 a research group led by Katherine Flegal, epidemiologist for the United States Center for Disease Control, published a review of 97 individual studies that compared body mass index (BMI) to risk of mortality (Flegal, Kit, & Orpana, 2015). Combined, the studies reported on over 270 000 deaths from 2.88 million individuals living in … Continue reading The Outrage Over Overweight