Is It Healthier To Be Pleasantly Plump? What Is The Best BMI?

MeasuringWaist

 By: Holly M. Thatcher, MD Is it healthier to be pleasantly plump? Or should you skip all desserts and work out twice a day to be a ‘lean-iac’? No sooner did many of us make resolutions to exercise more, eat less, and either lose weight or vow to at least not gain weight in the […]

The Moral of the Story Is Stop Reading Magazines

Seventeen and Faulty BMI

Reading about the latest body image flap created by Seventeen magazine makes me thank God I don’t have a girl. Really, what I’m thanking Him for is that I don’t have a 53% chance of dealing with a daughter’s body issues starting at age 13. Seventeen had a body mass index (or BMI) calculator on […]