I am going to keep on trying to lose, but am I worrying too much about this? Check out this article.
The line that was most interesting is the following:
But isn’t overweight, as defined by doctors, dangerous to health? Not necessarily, provided the overweight person is active. In The Obesity Myth (2004), law professor Paul Campos, who struggled for years with weight problems and then began to research the issue, argues that the true health risks are often distorted or exaggerated. He notes that “fat active people have half the mortality rate of thin sedentary people, and the same mortality rate as thin active people.”
But there is another interesting quote in there about how diet really does little to help overweight people maintain their weight.
A-HA!
I think you should maintain a healthy balance Dad. You’ve been looking a little peaked and thin lately. 😉
Hunter
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I know Kelly. I might have to buy new clothes if I lose too much weight and the stuff I have now is just getting comfortably broken in after 15 years or so.
I notice it wasn’t a really skinny guy writing that article …
Good catch. Bryan will probably hold that over my head (as he well should)!