You recently published a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial stating that around 70 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, but only a relatively small percentage consider themselves overweight (Another View, Dec. 21). It’s quite likely, however, that the federal government is overstating the problem because of the flawed way it calculates obesity: the body mass index. […]

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign opened a Pandora’s box of our worst instincts. He bullied Hillary Clinton by calling her “crooked Hillary’ and “lying Hillary.” He created a feeding frenzy by letting crowds chant “lock her up!” With his own behavior over the years and other Stephen Bannon-influenced ideas (“turn on the hate”), our president-elect has […]

Your Dec. 12 editorial, “Our View: Life expectancy slips back while inequality grows,” noted that 2015 marks the first decrease in life expectancy since 1993, in part because of the rise in rates for eight of the top 10 leading causes of death. The fact is, tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of […]