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A Little Fat is Healthy?

Posted on April 20th, 2005 by Sarah White in Diet Logs, Dieting, Healthy Eating, Weight Loss

A new study in all the papers today says that people who are slightly overweight are less likely to die than either obese people or those of normal weight.

The study was conducted by the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, using a model that has been used for predicting cancer risk.

An increased risk of death from obesity was only seen among the heaviest 8 percent of the population.

Reaction to the study has been mixed, with some saying it shows that the nation’s obsession with weight has gone too far; others simply do not believe the findings that seem to imply the well-used Body Mass Index needs adjusting.

However this pans out, it’s certainly no reason to gain weight, or to stop trying to lose weight if you fall in that high-risk category. But it is something intersting to think about, how little we really know about what is healthy and what is not.

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  1. Obesity Backlash said on April 26th, 2005 at 12:44 pm

    [...] thought (I wrote a little about it for our sister blog, The Diet Logs, which you can read here.) Basically, the group is saying the Centers for Disease Control and Pre [...]

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