Obesity Researchers Outraged by Inconvenient Truth About Weight and Mortality
8th June 2013
Since 2005, when Katherine Flegal of the National Center for Health Statistics began reporting that people whom the government deems “overweight” appear to be healthier than people who stay within the recommended weight range, her work has provoked outrage from other obesity researchers. As Virginia Hughes explains in a recent Nature feature story, the critics’ main complaint is not that Flegal’s findings are wrong but that they are unhelpful.
I guess the sky isn’t falling after all. What a disappointment.