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Context / Source
The Peter Attia Drive #212 - The Neuroscience of Obesity | Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D.
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Key Idea
BMI and mortality are not always correlated
who had obesity had shortened lifespans and greater risk of certain diseases. But it actually became pretty controversial with a series of studies that was published, Katherine Flegal was intimately involved in this work, suggesting that there was actually not the relationship people thought there was between body mass index and mortality. So these studies, this was labeled as the obesity paradox because what they found is that there wasn’t really much of an association between obesity and poor health outcomes. And often if you look at the relationship between B. M. I. And mortality, if you just look at
See also
A long form read on obesity Cultural and historical meanings of obesity