“when considered separately from other health issues” like all the detrimental byproducts of being morbidly obese?
lol, yes, a number can’t hurt you, but being overweight has, can, and will. ffs.
“when considered separately from other health issues” like all the detrimental byproducts of being morbidly obese?
lol, yes, a number can’t hurt you, but being overweight has, can, and will. ffs.
Reading through the article it sounds like not a great study, not asking enough questions and not tracking key information, such as cause of death.
Sounds like one of those things where people are going to headline what they want out of it and use it to champion their bias. “Being overweight doesn’t kill you, yay!” Nah, it’s way more complicated than that. People with cancer and other diseases often lose weight, a lot of it, and studies like this don’t do a good job of tracking this info.
After all, it’s not the cancer that kills you - it’s just the multi-organ failure.
New study: cancer not linked to death.
So many studies are exactly as you describe; here’s what (bias) I want to prove, let’s find (make up) some data to prove it.
Also, avoid cnn.com. What a trash site disguised as a news outlet.
I thought it was pretty well-known that BMI is a bullshit metric.
A short, thin, but bulky person can have an obese BMI because it doesn’t take into account fat percentage or muscle mass. It’s doesn’t account for diet quality and it doesn’t account for fitness.
A ratio of weight to height tells you basically nothing about your health.
It’s generally considered bullshit. But a large number of people cling to it, even when you point out glaring flaws like every power lifter is considered dangerously overweight.