Two scientific studies released this week came up with divergent, but perhaps complimentary results about obesity and weight loss, with one study by York University in Toronto finding that being overweight or even obese does not by itself increase the risk of dying, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Clinical Obesity.
But another scientific study, this one by researchers at Madras Diabetes Research Foundation in Chennai, India, and published in the online scientific journal PLOS One, found that there is, indeed, an increased risk of mortality not among obese people — but among people who are too thin.
“We’re not saying that people should aim to get fat, only that some people who are overweight or obese may be perfectly healthy, metabolically,” researcher Ranjit Mohan Anjana, a diabetes specialist, told India’s Telegraph newspaper.
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