Thursday, April 21, 2005

Medicine: Fat not THAT bad?

A new study from the CDC significantly downgrades the risks of obesity, especially moderately overweight folks with well controlled cholesterol and blood pressure. Under the new study, obesity falls right behind guns and car crashes in the preventable death counts. Could we see the 25-30-35 BMI dogma bumped up a little? Diabetes seems to demand a big "not yet," but stay tuned.

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