http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/13294/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/cbs-obesity-story-heavy-hype-light-substance <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/ken-shepherd">Ken Shepherd</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >     It’s been three years, and CBS’s Thalia Assuras still hasn’t done her biology homework on the limitations of the body mass index (BMI).</p> <br /> <p >     In a weekend “Evening News” story on a new university study that grades states with an A-F scale on the prevalence of childhood obesity, the reporter failed to tell viewers of the limitations of the weight index for medical evaluation – something she neglected to do in a similar story in 2004.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/cbs-obesity-story-heavy-hype-light-substance" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Health bmi bodymassindex Children fat kids MediaBias obesity reportcard school Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:03:10 +0000 admin 25645 at http://archive2.mrc.org