John A. Batsis, MD, a staff geriatrician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and an associate professor of medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is also director of clinical research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Weight & Wellness Center. Dr. Batsis has authored or coauthored more than 120 scientific papers that have appeared in leading medical journals, such as Obesity, American Journal of Cardiology and Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
If your body weight is “normal,” can you still be obese? Yes, it’s possible—and common. Read on for the health risks and solutions…