Dr. Barry Dworkin

Underweight a risk to health greater than overweight? Not so fast.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 31, 2014

Source:

Study Finds Being Underweight is Riskier Than Being Overweight

Reference:

J-shapedness: an often missed, often miscalculated relation: the example of weight and mortality

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