Well - Weight as Main Measure of Health May Be Misguided - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Dec 16
  

  Elizabeth Quinn

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• 24 Jan 09
  

  Chipper Dean

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• 21 Aug 08
  

  Rudy Silva

  Increasingly, medical research is showing that it isn’t. Despite concerns about an obesity epidemic, there is growing evidence that our obsession about weight as a primary measure of health may be misguided.

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  • To be sure, being overweight or obese is linked with numerous health problems, and even in the most recent research, obese people were more likely to have two or more cardiovascular risk factors than slim people. But researchers say it is the proportion of overweight and obese people who are metabolically healthy that is so surprising.
• 20 Aug 08
  

  emperor_ju Haase

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  Jeffrey Collins
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  Bob Nehrbass

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• 19 Aug 08
  

  lfriedl
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  • the most striking finding was that fitness level, regardless of body mass index, was the strongest predictor of mortality risk. Those with the lowest level of fitness, as measured on treadmill tests, were four times as likely to die during the 12-year study than those with the highest level of fitness. Even those who had just a minimal level of fitness had half the risk of dying compared with those who were least fit.

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