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I appreciate your sincerity. The problem with books (and blogs) on obesity is that they tend to argue their points ...
This study shows mortality to increase in the 30-35 BMI range, well below the cutoff for morbid obesity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19299006 Many other relevant ...
Every epidemiological study I am aware of finds obesity (as opposed to overweight) to be significantly associated with greater risk ...
BMI is "artificial" only in the sense that thresholds for hypertension, serum cholesterol, etc. are "artificial." All are based on ...
The new threshold is keyed not to people's ability to afford the necessities of life, but to their expenditures relative ...
Amanda at Wronging Rights brings up the actual statistics Kristof uses: that poor households spend 2% of their income on ...
None of these warnings are empirically grounded. As one review puts it, "Simply stated, there is no scientific evidence whatsoever that ...
4 oz of protein is about 113 grams. One pound of 85% ground beef contains about 84.3 grams of protein. ...
I am convinced there are more important policies to pursue than cutting alleged waste in food assistance programs. But Charen ...
