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Four Obesity Paradoxes Exposed: Obesity Protects From Chronic Disease > Overweight is CVD Protective > Obesity is Not a Problem if You're Fit > Healthy Obesity is Real

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Since scientists still judge obesity by BMI values, athletes contribute to the CVD / mortality  "obesity paradox" Alright, next to "I don't care, I feel good" you will probably have hear or even read statements like "Don't worry if you're obese. The extra fat is protective" or at least claims like "If you're fit, it doesn't matter if you're fat". In today's SuppVersity Special I want to take a closer look at these and other claims that are based on observational data that suggest that either all or at least one of the following "obesity paradoxes" exist: (1) Classic obesity paradox - obesity is protective in some chronic diseases; (2) pre-obesity - overweight is protective in normal populations; (3) fat-but-fit - obesity is not a risk factor for mortality in fit individuals; (4) healthy obesity  - a sizeable population of obese adults has normal cardio-metabolic risk profiles (McAuley. 2011). Small ...
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The Obesity Paradox, a Fat White Lie: A Longer Life for the Obese Is Nothing But a Sick Exception to the Healthy Rule

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"But Dr. the TV guy said, I would live longer than my normal weight cousin." I guess, you will be familiar with the therm "obesity paradox". A term coined by researchers and picked up by the media to sooth the increasingly overweight majority of the US citizens to believe that even if they cross the border to obesity (which more and more people do), they can still live a healthy  and - assuming that they follow all the good expert panel advice and take their expensive meds, even outlive their normal-weight peers. Now, a recent paper from the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York basically states: "There is no such thing as an obesity paradox" In fact the only paradox there is, is the ease with which scientists around the world have been fooled by numerous reports of a lower mortality risk for obese individuals than for normalweight individuals within the past decades (I guess that...
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