Interesting article from
Nature on the 'Obesity-Paradox',
- A team led by Katherine Flegal, an epidemiologist at the National Center
for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, reported that people
deemed 'overweight' by international standards were 6% less likely to
die than were those of 'normal' weight over the same time period.
The principle gap I can see is that there was no account for body-composition. This point is alluded to in the final paragraphs,
- All this suggests that BMI is a crude measure for evaluating the health
of individuals. Some researchers contend that what really matters is the
distribution of fat tissue on the body, with excess abdominal fat being
most dangerous; others say that cardiovascular fitness predicts
mortality regardless of BMI or abdominal fat.
Thought provoking all the same.
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