For et par år siden viste jeg til nyere amerikansk forskning som ga som resultat at dødeligheten er lavere for dem som er mildt overvektige enn for dem med normalvekt.
Det utmerket uortodokse nettmagasinet Spiked skrev for noen dager om en oppfølgningsstudie som har testet dette funnet for en rekke andre måter å måle overvekt på. Resultatene er de samme:
In other words, there are no statistically significant associations between being fat and premature death or death from obesity-related diseases, regardless of which measure of overweight and obese is used. In fact, as with BMI, those who had higher-than-normal readings of these alternative obesity measures had a lower risk of dying early.
This means that there is now no credible scientific justification for the public health community, their allies in the diet industry, or the government scaring us by claiming that being overweight, or even modestly fat, will kill us. It is any wonder that no one in the anti-obesity movement is talking about this study?
En slik statistisk sammenheng betyr ikke at det, *alt annet likt*, er bedre å være moderat overvektig.
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