You Will Not Die from Being Overweight
Contrary to popular belief being overweight will not increase your risk of an early death, well according to some Harvard school academics anyhow:
“In an extraordinary two-hour public session Friday at the Harvard School of Public Health, the academics cast aspersions at the conclusions of Katherine M. Flegal, Ph.D., and colleagues who reported in the April 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that there is no excess mortality among overweight people.
At the meeting, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health who have long made comfortable careers on obesity research, the American Cancer Society, and others criticized the study’s methodology, and attacked the conclusions as biologically implausible and contrary to numerous other analyses.”
You can read the full report here:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/tbindex.cfm?tbid=1125&topicid=51