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Google News: Are we underestimating how fat Americans are?
[The Week Magazine] - Doctors really need to come up with a better method of classifying weight, says Dr. James Hospedales, and simply lowering the BMI obesity cutoff won't work. "We'd also be calling an increasing number of people obese who aren't, which could lead to
Google News: The American Obesity Rate May be Higher Than we Thought
[Diets In Review (blog)] - In a recent article by CNN, James Hospedales, MD, chief of noncommunicable diseases at Pan American Health Organization, admitted that he and other researchers have known for a while now that the BMI measurement is not perfect.
Obesity rate may be worse than we think - CNN
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· James Hospedales, M.D., chief of noncommunicable diseases at the Pan American Health Organization, a division of the World Health Organization based in ...
Vicious virus spreading quickly in Caribbean | The Seattle Times
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — A recently arrived mosquito-borne virus that causes an abrupt onset of high fever and intense joint pain is rapidly gaining a...
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