Health Link: Looking to gain muscle? Buy Good to be Fat
By Groovybabe • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: article 
Apparently, “it is good to be fat”, according to an American study into weight issues. At least, that is what the Independent are saying.
If you are mildly overweight (which is not “fat” by any stetch, is it? Newspapers love their dramatic headlines!) you have a LESSER chance of morbidity than the underweight, obese and even the normal weight amongst us.
“The take-home message is that the relationship between fat and mortality is more complicated than we tend to think,” said Katherine Flegal, the lead researcher. “It’s not a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all situation where excess weight just increases your mortality risk for any and all causes of death.”
At last some intelligent insight into the whole issue. You can read the article in full here.
Groovybabe is 14.9 stones today and has lost 2lbs at her last weigh in.
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There is morbidly obese, obese and overweight (fat) I always said I would be happy to just be overweight, I guess now that might not be such a bad thing LOL
Maybe that’s because people who qualify as “mildly overweight” on the BMI chart are actually at a normal, healthy weight. People who actually fall into the “normal” BMI range usually look extremely thin to me. I know my husband looked gaunt when he was “normal.”
Diana
I class obese and morbidly obese as fat, I dont class overweight as fat. But maybe that is just me. I would be happier if I was overweight (only 5 bmi away!) but want to aim to be a normal weight.
Sally
Thanks for commenting on my blog. Yeah, I think there is something in what you say but I think it depends on the person really.
Very interesting study. I think BMI is flawed. It was shown that the waist circumference more than BMI predicts the risk of heart disease for example. I aim at eating healthy and exercising and being in the upper normal or lower underweight range.