Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds

Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:19PM (#25887877)

The Army Sergeant Major of the British Army is 'overweight', for example. (He's done interviews about it.) That's obviously nonsense and he doesn't need to lose any weight at all. The idea of 'overweight' is meaningless.

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by ZephyrBlu on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:49PM (#25888166)

Is he jacked, or fat?

If he's jacked, then yes of course he doesn't need to lose weight. That is a tiny proportion of the population though.

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:52PM (#25888188)

He's jacked, but the original comment was 'losing weight to a target healthy weight is always [ALWAYS] good'. It sounds like you agree that's a false statement?

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by ZephyrBlu on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:07PM (#25888292)

The original comment was making a generalization that was pretty fair considering that the proportion of the population that has enough muscle mass to cause them to be 'overweight' is pretty small.

Obviously "always" is wrong. Almost nothing is absolute.

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by chrisseaton on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:09PM (#25888314)

> Obviously "always" is wrong.

Bingo.

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