> I find that when I point this out, people often get mad. They feel they aren't obese. But the research doesn't support them, if you are anywhere outside of the "healthy" categorization you are at the same risk (that we know of so far) as "clinically obese" people.
Depends. All cause mortality is notoriously lower for "overweight" people than "normal weight" people.
Really smells like one of those “some alcohol is healthier than none” things where there’s a subset of the otherwise-healthiest group that’s in the otherwise-healthiest group because they’re very sick.
Normal weight and overweight were determined by percentage of population at some point. The boundaries are not about lifespan, they never were.
Why? "Overweight" and "normal weight" weren't determined by reference to what's better.