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Authors: Mark Hyman
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well-being, balance, health, and energy. The trick is to tune up your biology, tune up your hormones, and tune up your metabolism so everything plays in harmony. When that happens (and on this program, it will), you’ll find that your cravings disappear very quickly—generally within a day or two. It does take a little leap of faith, but please take that leap; your body knows what to do!
This has been one of the best experiences of my life. I have confidence that I can get my weight down to normal and live to be a healthy old girl. No suffering. To break my addictions with no pain has been truly remarkable. I didn’t know I could do it without hunger… I cannot thank you enough.
—DIANA STEUF
MYTH #4: YOU CAN BE HEALTHY IF YOU ARE OVERWEIGHT
A research finding got big headlines recently. “New Study Finds That Overweight People Have Lower Death Rates Than Thin People.” Nonsense. This makes for sensational headlines, but looking at the real facts of this and other studies helps to clarify that being overweight negatively impacts your health and longevity in a number of ways.
The study analyzed 100 other studies encompassing 2.88 million people with over 270,000 deaths. Those who were overweight based on a BMI (body mass index) of 25 to 30 seemed to have a lower risk of death than those who were skinnier, with a body mass index of 18.5 to 25. However, those who were obese, with a BMI of
more
than 30, had a much higher risk of death. Is the take-home message that you should gain more weight to live longer? Hardly.
There are many problems with the study. It included very skinny people in the “normal weight” group, people who are often quite sick, like my sister, who recently died of cancer and was rail thin at her death. Chronically ill people, especially those with cancer, die very thin. In fact, the lowest risk of death was in the group with a BMI of 22 to 25.
Other factors also confuse this study. Body mass index doesn’t account for how much of your weight is from body fat or muscle mass. Shaquille O’Neal, one of the greatest basketball players in history, has a BMI of 35 (which is considered morbidly obese), but he is muscular, not fat. You can also be what I call a skinny-fat person, with a low body mass index but very little muscle; even though you are of normal weight, you are fat on the inside. If you have skinny arms and legs and a big belly, you may be of normal weight but still have a high risk of death.
The only way to correlate weight with mortality is to look at muscle and fat composition, as well as disease markers such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, insulin, inflammation, and other markers that show you how sick you are independent of weight.
This was also a global study, and it is well known that Asians and East Indians can have diabetes at much lower body weights. So while interesting, this study doesn’t prove anything significant, and it certainly doesn’t suggest that you can carry excess weight without also carrying increased risks of chronic disease and premature death.
There is also some research that says if you are overweight but fit, your risk of disease is lower. Certainly fitness at any weight reduces the risk of disease and death, but to promote the benefits of being fat and fit only suits the food industry. In fact, the Center for Consumer Freedom, a food and tobacco industry front group, published a white paper on the “obesity hoax.” The liberal media and the government, they say, are perpetrating a big hoax on Americans. We are not fat, they insist, and diabetes is not on the rise. Oh, please! If you believe that, just take a walk through your local mall.
The Center for Consumer Freedom is funded by Coca-Cola, Monsanto, Philip Morris Kraft (which changed its name to Altria to escape negative cigarette- and junk-food-related brand perceptions), and other food industry giants—though on their website they hide the sponsors because they fear attack
This has been one of the best experiences of my life. I have confidence that I can get my weight down to normal and live to be a healthy old girl. No suffering. To break my addictions with no pain has been truly remarkable. I didn’t know I could do it without hunger… I cannot thank you enough.
—DIANA STEUF
MYTH #4: YOU CAN BE HEALTHY IF YOU ARE OVERWEIGHT
A research finding got big headlines recently. “New Study Finds That Overweight People Have Lower Death Rates Than Thin People.” Nonsense. This makes for sensational headlines, but looking at the real facts of this and other studies helps to clarify that being overweight negatively impacts your health and longevity in a number of ways.
The study analyzed 100 other studies encompassing 2.88 million people with over 270,000 deaths. Those who were overweight based on a BMI (body mass index) of 25 to 30 seemed to have a lower risk of death than those who were skinnier, with a body mass index of 18.5 to 25. However, those who were obese, with a BMI of
more
than 30, had a much higher risk of death. Is the take-home message that you should gain more weight to live longer? Hardly.
There are many problems with the study. It included very skinny people in the “normal weight” group, people who are often quite sick, like my sister, who recently died of cancer and was rail thin at her death. Chronically ill people, especially those with cancer, die very thin. In fact, the lowest risk of death was in the group with a BMI of 22 to 25.
Other factors also confuse this study. Body mass index doesn’t account for how much of your weight is from body fat or muscle mass. Shaquille O’Neal, one of the greatest basketball players in history, has a BMI of 35 (which is considered morbidly obese), but he is muscular, not fat. You can also be what I call a skinny-fat person, with a low body mass index but very little muscle; even though you are of normal weight, you are fat on the inside. If you have skinny arms and legs and a big belly, you may be of normal weight but still have a high risk of death.
The only way to correlate weight with mortality is to look at muscle and fat composition, as well as disease markers such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, insulin, inflammation, and other markers that show you how sick you are independent of weight.
This was also a global study, and it is well known that Asians and East Indians can have diabetes at much lower body weights. So while interesting, this study doesn’t prove anything significant, and it certainly doesn’t suggest that you can carry excess weight without also carrying increased risks of chronic disease and premature death.
There is also some research that says if you are overweight but fit, your risk of disease is lower. Certainly fitness at any weight reduces the risk of disease and death, but to promote the benefits of being fat and fit only suits the food industry. In fact, the Center for Consumer Freedom, a food and tobacco industry front group, published a white paper on the “obesity hoax.” The liberal media and the government, they say, are perpetrating a big hoax on Americans. We are not fat, they insist, and diabetes is not on the rise. Oh, please! If you believe that, just take a walk through your local mall.
The Center for Consumer Freedom is funded by Coca-Cola, Monsanto, Philip Morris Kraft (which changed its name to Altria to escape negative cigarette- and junk-food-related brand perceptions), and other food industry giants—though on their website they hide the sponsors because they fear attack
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