Date: 2007-02-08 02:47 pm (UTC)
OK... so it sounds like more research is needed on the diabetes issues, but that (unsurprisingly) diet and exercise matter far more than body fat, which doesn't surprise me.

The joint-issue point is a good one, but it also has to do with weight, which can also just be a person's size or musculature, right? Muscle is heavy, too... though maybe in the muscle case, the joints are more supported (by the muscle) so it evens out?

Interesting stuff. The end points seems to persist: it's best to use better metrics than size/shape/weight to determine health and/or diagnose problems; after that, your body will probably be healthiest being left at whatever size/shape/weight falls out of pursuit of those healthy metrics, and if that resultant shape includes some fat reserves, you will have some advantages against some diseases (and perhaps disadvantages with few others, but that's not certain). Nothing about that seems counter-intuitive to me.
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