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> If everyone is deficient, then it must not be that important. Most people are overweight. Does that make being a healthy weight not that important?

• cobalt 4mo ago
  most people can tolerate being overweight pretty well it seems
  • monkpit 4mo ago
    For what definition of “tolerate”?
  • epihelix 4mo ago
    Not according to the public health literature. But, hey, don't let hard population data spoil what things "seem" to you. Here are a few highly-cited articles to get you started: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2458-9-88 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2458-9-88 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1614362 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1614362
• Lionga 4mo ago
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