Adult overweight population severely understimated

Saturday, July 9, 2016 - 09:31 in Health & Medicine

Every day, health care providers, public health practitioners and researchers use standard body mass index (BMI) cutoff points to classify individuals as overweight or obese, and to monitor population-level trends in over- and underweight people. According to a new study by ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change associate professor Daniel Hruschka, these cutoff […]

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