Obesity Stats: Completely Overrated... and False

Why can't these scientists all come together, and agree on one concensus?: rather than one day say being overweight will kill you, and then another day saying that it is actually healthy?

"First the CDC said obesity caused 400,000 deaths per year. Then they admitted their mistake and revised that to 365,000. In recent studies the figure 25,814 has now been released."

You have to give a bit more understanding to the people who come up with these figures. It's very hard to determine if obesity is the cause of death in many instances. For example, if somebody dies of stomach cancer, was it being overweight that caused it or could it have happened anyway? That's a very hard question to answer, so there is no way to come up with perfect figures. Regardless, obesity is still an undisputably unhealthy epidemic.

Ben, you're absolutely right. I should really have called this "Obesity Mortality stats..."

There is no doubt that high body fat levels are linked with a significant number of health issues. Attempting to pindown weight (or BMI) as the sole cause of these ailments is what is difficult.

this must be fake.........have you seen the movie "supersize me"?? obesity is the #1 leading cause of death. Does this website want people to eat and eat and eat and eat... until they cant move on there own legs beacause they cant get up because there gut touches the ground!?!?!?

im obese.and its not that bad

Emily, sweetie, calm down, it is not the leading cause of death, being puched in the temple for causing global confusion and despair is!!!!!

People die of what they were destined to die of, being fat will not necessarily kill you, for example, walk out into the street without looking and perhaps the oncoming traffic will kill you.

Yeah, keep obsessing over weight, while doctors and diet centers get rich off of telling you your too fat. If we're too fat, then offer a FREE soulution.....that's what I thought.

p.s. go feed the hungry to take your mind off of your weight.

I am a sociologist and I can assure you fat is the most overhyped health risk there is. Plenty of fat people in other societies were very healthy and lived to ripe old ages without developing premature disease. They did not suffer from stigma! Furthermore, few people are aware all the risky weight loss practices from diet drugs to WLS gets attributed to obesity. Why? Pharma is the one sponsoring the studies. They want to scare more people into using the deadly pills which cause more harm which is blamed on fat to sell more pills!!! Enjoy your life!!!

"Fat can be beautiful. Intolerance is ALWAYS ugly!!!