Daily Fail: Fat might not be so bad for you...

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Starts off basically saying the same old thing; fat = about to keel over and die at any moment/ticking time bomb, then it moves on to the actual piece:

Rather than seeing fat cells as the enemy, the new thinking is that fat plays a key role in regulating vital energy supplies and even helping in the immune system.

Here, we reveal some of the surprising new findings about your chubbier bits.
Excessive amounts of fat don’t necessarily mean you’re going to develop chronic diseases. It might even ‘protect’ the body.
‘As many as 20 per cent of people who are overweight or obese have no sign of metabolic problems — they have low cholesterol, good blood sugar control and healthy blood pressure,’ explains Keith Frayn, professor of human metabolism at Oxford University.

IT’S BEING UNFIT, NOT FAT, THAT’S BAD
This is the controversial view of Lucy Aphramor, an NHS dietitian at Coventry University. She and several other experts recently published an article in the Nutritionist Journal pointing out that obese patients are less than half as likely to die in the three years after treatment for a heart attack as patients with a normal body mass index.
This could be because of differences in their body chemistry, such as having blood that is less likely to clot.
‘The dangers of obesity have been highly exaggerated,’ commented Aphramor.
‘Even when a fat person suffered a heart attack their weight wasn’t necessarily the culprit. It was much more likely the result of a poor diet and a lack of exercise.
‘And there are slim, supposedly healthy people who have at least two of the risk factors for heart disease usually associated with obesity like high cholesterol.’
This is highly contentious but it does fit in with the ‘fat but fit’ people who have been found to have low cholesterol and blood pressure.


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