I have no idea who the other two people are.ĮDIT: Jeff Hunger is a sociologist researching weight stigma who has published papers with Janet Tomiyama. His work was used by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a paid propaganda firm that has done work for the Restaurant Association and the smoking lobby, along with the Fat Acceptance movement. Paul Campos is a fucking lawyer who wrote a book. A much larger meta analysis published in The Lancet essentially shitcanned her study, and Andrew Stokes has shown that when you categorize by lifetime peak weight, the never-overweight have the lowest mortality rate of all. It was widely criticised for insufficiently correcting for confounding factors. Katherine Flegal is one of the authors of a 2013 study with a large representative sample from NHANES that supposedly showed better longevity for the overweight. It’s an interesting topic, especially considering that some of her findings might be attributable to other factors and advancements in medicine These findings are consistent with the increases in life expectancy in the United States and the declining mortality rates from ischemic heart disease.” The impact of obesity on mortality may have decreased over time, perhaps because of improvements in public health and medical care. “Underweight and obesity, particularly higher levels of obesity, were associated with increased mortality relative to the normal weight category. Here’s the conclusion of the original article: There are actually some very good theories on why overweight people-as in a BMI of around 27–have better outcomes (loss of appetite is a huge issue in chronic illnesses and for many medications).Īnyways it’s frustrating that people take a few statistical analyses that cannot account for every weird factor and turn it into a blanket statement (in reference to the podcast).ĮTA: also the CDC still stands by her findings. The podcast tries to deny this finding, Flegal’s work does not. It’s not healthy to be obese and that was never the purpose of the study-it was to determine the actual mortality connected to obesity. ![]() However in the obese categories, health outcomes and disease incidence increases as weight goes up. Flegal’s work is pretty clear that health outcomes in the overweight category are slightly better than the normal category. I take issue with how you characterize Flegal’s study.
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