Research Finds Obesity is in the Eye of the Beholder

In an era of body positivity, more people are noting the way American culture stigmatizes obesity and discriminates by weight. One challenge for studying this inequality is that a common measure for obesity—Body Mass Index (BMI), a ratio of height to weight—has been criticized for ignoring important variation in healthy bodies. Plus, the basis for … Continue reading Research Finds Obesity is in the Eye of the Beholder