Being too overweight must be bad for you, but maybe they are being excessive, when they define what people should weigh.
I think in health, as in most things, moderation and the middle road is the safest.
It is very difficult to say what this study actually found from this excerpt.
A confounder of studies such as this is that people who are terminally ill often lose a lot of weight before they die. So, even though obesity may not be very healthy, a study could show that obese or overweight people have a better prognosis—even though if compared with healthy, non-terminal people, they may actually be pretty bad off.
I don’t care what the study says, when you are 100 - 200 pounds overweight that can’t be healthy for you. If you are 30 pounds overweight, well that’s probably not so bad. It’s all in degrees. I don’t need scientist to tell me this, it’s common sense....
I’ve always believed having a little extra padding isn’t a bad thing. Helps you survive long-term sicknesses and shrapnel better than those that are rail-thin.
From the 1973 movie “Sleeper”:
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.”
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.
Or, as Algore might say, “The science is settled.”
Can’t wait till Limbaugh finds this and tells us all it’s okay to be fat. He’ll go on to tell us how he knew this all along. And, exercising is a waste of time.
The BMI is the biggest hoax. My Ideal weight based on my body type is 200 lbs. The BMI chart says I should weigh 185. If I dropped 15 lbs, I would look like a stick insect.
In the case of women, it is better for bone health to be carrying around a little weight (more than 130 lbs. or so).
Women who are naturally slender are advised to do weight bearing exercise or wear a weight vest when they exercise to maintain bone density.
People can get too obsessed about weight, when other lifestyle factors are more important.
Could it be that older thin people are depressed and the fat ones are happy?
I like cookies.
This just tells me medical profession is still a bunch of yokels if they used BMI as their measure
I’m trying to get back to my original weight...8 pounds, 6 ounces.