re: No such thing as 'fat but fit', major study finds

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And we all know crazy unhealthy skinny people who eat like shite and are sedentary and smoke and do all kinds of unhealthy stuff.

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It is really hard to be unhealthily skinny. My "recommended weight range" goes all the way down into the 80s. You have to be practically emaciated to be unhealthily skinny.

Smoking and eating like shite are not good for you, but from what I've read, those people's numbers (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.) are still usually better than someone overweight/obese. At the end of the day, being overweight/obese is the unhealthiest thing you can do to your body. Somewhere along the way, our society has decided to accept these people and start pointing their fingers at poor diet, smoking, lack of exercise, etc. as if they are worse. And usually, they're not.