Research Doctors Say It's Good to be A Bit Overweight
Okay fatties, (including me-15#'s over "normal" weight, now) this is the time to thumb your noses at the skinny folks in their arrogance-because your day has come! The Jews have a saying; the greatest revenge is to out live your enemies! Well, now science says you probably will.
Decades ago scientists began collecting data they have only recently finished recording and analyzing. With that analysis everything, well almost everything you ever heard about fattiness is proven WRONG!!
This study reveals that being as much as 30 pounds over weight in ratio to your height may actually be beneficial to your health.
The study, was published Monday 11/12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association and what is says is that being a bit overweight is not at all a hindrance to good health, and more, that it may be healthier than being thinner or even those who are right on the mark with weight-to-height proportions.
The report indicates that while it is possible that being somewhat overweight may increase your chances of dying from diabetes or kidney disease, that same overweight factor is a pleasing determent to cancer and heart disease.
What the study reveals, say the scientists is that moderately overweight people over the decades in which this study was collected, demonstrated considerably greater longevity than peers which were underweight, or of "ideal" weight or far overweight/ obese.
The findings are the result of analyzing decades of data by Government researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia and include case histories and longevity of millions of Americans.
The report strongly asserts that being overweight by as much as thirty-pounds (30 Lbs) in ratio to your height, "was associated with significantly decreased all-cause mortality overall".
Dr. Katherine Flegal, the lead researcher, says, "The take-home message is that the relationship between fat and mortality is more complicated than we tend to think. It's not a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all situation where excess weight just increases your mortality risk for any and all causes of death."
That the CDC's report squashes the medial drug industry, which are teetering form one blast after another from honest researchers findings. Find a researcher who blasts such well documented facts and you will find one who is financially supported by drug companies, say some critics. There has been an onslaught of late in findings that eliminate the need for certain high profit drugs and other treatments. Moreover, if Mr. John Kanzius cancer zapping machine continues its successful raid on cancer drugs; they won't exist in five more years, as I predicted 25 years ago, and again repeatedly within the last five years
Dr. Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, thinks it"...just rubbish," "It's just ludicrous to say there is no increased risk of mortality from being overweight."
Obesity has been stated to be one of the great threats to health in the America, even among children. People with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 30, are considered obese, and continue to run a higher risk of death, the study points out, from a number of illnesses, including heart disease and certain cancers. However, the study also stated that being underweight increases the risk of a good many illnesses.
The scientists at the CDC first hinted at the upside of being overweight a few years ago. Since then, however, they have expanded the base of their analysis, with data that includes mortality figures from 2004, the last year for which numbers were available, for no fewer than 2.3 million American adults.
Americans who were overweight, but not obese, were up to about 40 per cent less likely than normal-weight people to die from various infections, pneumonia, Alzheimer's, emphysema and injuries.
Also those a bit over standard weight for their height is a positive in recovering from serious surgery, infections and injuries, Dr Flegal said. Like the camels who carry their own water and the Bush-women, whose body fat, held mostly in the rump and thighs, hold built-in nutrition reserves upon which to call in a crisis, so do Americans who are somewhat over weight have reserves to draw on in times of medical crisis.
Dr. Steven Blair, a professor of exercise science and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina, says, "What this tells us is the hazards have been very much exaggerated." He has agreed with me that the case for dietary restraint has gone too far.
Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8. Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more. After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
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When the rest of America realizes that death is less to be feared then the attempts to avoid it, then they will display that they truly beleive whole heartedly in a God. They have to take the leap of faith Indiana Jones took when he stepped out onto the invisible bridge to find the Chalice of Jesus last sip. God that we all have th courge to say no to the bastards and drive them the Hell out of business.
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1220 comments)
on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 12:20:29 PM
