When its Good to be Fat -- Study

[Paul]

Interesting article.

In the 1940s the Framingham Heart Study launched and brought to the forefront the serious health risks of obesity. This study became the gold standard long-term research that says the higher your weight the more likely you are to develop all kinds of serious illnesses from heart disease to high blood pressure. And ever since doctors’ first order of business is to have patients lose the weight.
But during the last decade a curious discovery casts doubt over that recommendation to lose weight. In multiple studies crossing many different diseases it seems that those who are overweight or moderately obese have a significantly higher survival rate than normal-weight people suffering from the same illnesses. For instance in a recent study out of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University scientists found that normal-weight patients are twice as likely to die from Type 2 diabetes as overweight or obese patients.

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