Obesity News

I can’t believe it’s been a full week since I blogged. I had intended to move it to another sub-domain and just haven’t had made the time for it. And a today, I read the following 3 articles that I wanted to come back to…obesity articulated as a disease seems to raise some interesting issues, […]

Obesity in the News

A couple of things this week caught my attention this, but I haven’t had a chance to follow up or watch yet, so I store them here to come back to. This is a documentary called “All of Me” which “shines light on our attitudes and prejudices about obesity — its causes, challenges, and the […]

Scary Realization

Since 2003, I have served on ECU’s Institutional Review Board as a non-scientist. These boards have to have certain types of members on the committee. Physicians, nurses, scientists, community members, and at least one non-scientist. In fact for a while, I was the only non-scientist, and if I was late, they couldn’t begin until I […]

Obesity as a Disease

Back in June, the American Medical Association delegates voted against the conclusions by their internal Council on Science and Public Health. The council concluded obesity should NOT be defined as a disease because the Body Mass Index (MBI) used to measure obesity  has issues “simplistic and flawed”. Arguments for classifying obesity as a disease included […]