She includes testimonies from Xavier Pi-Sunyer, the director of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. She also mentions the fact that both the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization agree with Pi-Sunyer in thinking that obesity is a disease. The World Health Organization has listed obesity as a disease in its International Classification of Diseases since 1979 (155). Spake continues to discuss the studies of twins, referencing studies that show BMI, body composition and other measures of “fatness” to be 20 to 70 percent inherited. Spake’s use of sources is adequate; however, she contradicts herself later in the article by stating that not all scientists agree on labeling obesity as “a
She includes testimonies from Xavier Pi-Sunyer, the director of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. She also mentions the fact that both the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization agree with Pi-Sunyer in thinking that obesity is a disease. The World Health Organization has listed obesity as a disease in its International Classification of Diseases since 1979 (155). Spake continues to discuss the studies of twins, referencing studies that show BMI, body composition and other measures of “fatness” to be 20 to 70 percent inherited. Spake’s use of sources is adequate; however, she contradicts herself later in the article by stating that not all scientists agree on labeling obesity as “a