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Obesity Paradox: 'Being Thinner Can Kill You'
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Obesity Paradox: 'Being Thinner Can Kill You'
JILL STARK
Last updated 10:08 30/03/2014
Stuff.co.nz
Life and Style
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/9884693/
Obesity-paradox-being-thinner-can-kill-you
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For many, it's a lifelong battle - a never-ending nightmare of quick-fix
diets, exercise fads and obsessing over the bathroom scales.
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But what if the fight against fat was making you sick? What if the excess
kilos you've been desperately trying to shed were actually protecting you
against premature death? Could you get off the weight-loss treadmill and
lengthen your life?
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This is the theory put forward in a contentious new book that is ruffling
feathers in the health sector.
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At a time when obesity and its associated burden of chronic diseases is a
growing global problem, the book, to be released in Australia this week,
suggests our obsession with thinness is courting disaster.
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In The Obesity Paradox: When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means
Healthier, US cardiologist Carl Lavie says our modern culture has been
duped into thinking excess body fat is bad.
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He says the key to optimal health for millions of overweight and obese
people may be staying the size they are.
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''Fat has been demonised by our society, and our research shows fat is not
always the devil,'' he told Fairfax Media from his home in Louisiana - the
fattest state in the US. ''You can be heavy and amazingly healthy. Fitness
is a lot more important than fatness.''
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Lavie, who works at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New
Orleans, said a growing body of evidence, including his own research over
a decade, shows that while excess fat can lead to risk factors for chronic
illness such as cardiovascular disease and type two diabetes, once these
diseases develop heavier people have better outcomes.
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''This is the obesity paradox,'' he says. ''Among the patients who have
heart disease, the overweight and moderately obese are actually doing
considerably better, sometimes 30 to 50 per cent lower mortality rates,
than the lean people who have the same diseases.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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The Obesity Paradox: When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
Author Carl J. Lavie M.D.
Publisher Penguin, 2014
ISBN 0698148517, 9780698148512
Length 288 pages
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