An evaluation of national data by UC Davis researchers has found that extra weight is not necessarily linked with a higher risk of death.Dead is a lousy metric.
When compared to those with normal weight, people who were overweight or obese had no increased risk of death during a follow-up period of six years. People who were severely obese did have a higher risk, but only if they also had diabetes or hypertension.
Sick is a better metric.
Fat folk are more sick.
Whether we can keep them alive, at too great a cost, is not the point.
Put someone on a ventilator for years and they are not clinically dead.
Stupid research, stupid conclusion, stupid headline.
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