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https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/overweight-and-healthy-the-concept-of-metabolically-healthy-obesity-201309246697 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/overwei
by anonymouskimmer 4y ago
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/overweight-and-healthy-the-concept-of-metabolically-healthy-obesity-201309246697 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/overweight-and-healthy-t...
"Carrying too many pounds is a solid signal of current or future health problems. But not for everyone. Some people who are overweight or obese mange to escape the usual hazards, at least temporarily. This weight subgroup has even earned its own moniker—metabolically healthy obesity."
"But some people who are overweight or obese manage to avoid these changes and, at least metabolically, look like individuals with healthy weights. “Obesity isn’t a homogeneous condition,” says Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. “It appears that it doesn’t affect everyone in the same ways.”"
- gadders 4y ago[flagged]
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoAnd yet a minority of obese people had no problem with COVID. To be consistent I hope you also don't accept health advice from seriously underweight people either.