A large US study has found that being overweight carried a slightly lower risk of dying within the study period than being a supposedly healthy weight.
Being overweight may not be so bad for your health after all. The latest evidence comes from a large study where people who were classed as overweight, but not obese. It showed that they had a slightly lower rate of death than people with a supposedly ideal weight. This hints that the threshold at which individuals are classed as overweight has been set too low.
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