Obesity: A Disease Without Measure?

By Newsroom on June 21, 2013   Features, Food  

In light of The American Medical Association’s (AMA) recent announcement that obesity has now been classified as a disease, the way in which obesity is measured has come under fire. Body Mass Index (BMI), the national standard for measuring obesity, is an antiquated and highly inaccurate system invented in 1835 that does not consider gender […]