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walkitouthttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/health/12well.html
Tara Parker-Pope covered the new guidelines recently, and the comments thread was obscenely vicious to her/the guidelines. Mostly a bunch of bat-shit crazy ignoramuses (shall I tell you how I _really_ feel?) who don't get The Cascade in any form. She's made a second, valiant effort here to address the issues. I'm guessing it won't work much better than previous efforts, but she deserves applause anyway.
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/08/11/studies-refine-obesitys-risk-for-heart-troubles.html
Lots of sources for secondary coverage of these two articles; none of them particularly spectacular and the editorial accompanying the original research articles has some very clear problems (NO! We MUST panic about BMI! We must!).
Take away is straightforward: being overweight or obese may be a risk "factor", but that doesn't make you unhealthy or even say anything about whether you're about to become unhealthy. Location of excess fat, however, might be interesting; the German study in particular notes that fatty liver is bad, maybe worse than visceral fat in general.
Tara Parker-Pope covered the new guidelines recently, and the comments thread was obscenely vicious to her/the guidelines. Mostly a bunch of bat-shit crazy ignoramuses (shall I tell you how I _really_ feel?) who don't get The Cascade in any form. She's made a second, valiant effort here to address the issues. I'm guessing it won't work much better than previous efforts, but she deserves applause anyway.
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/08/11/studies-refine-obesitys-risk-for-heart-troubles.html
Lots of sources for secondary coverage of these two articles; none of them particularly spectacular and the editorial accompanying the original research articles has some very clear problems (NO! We MUST panic about BMI! We must!).
Take away is straightforward: being overweight or obese may be a risk "factor", but that doesn't make you unhealthy or even say anything about whether you're about to become unhealthy. Location of excess fat, however, might be interesting; the German study in particular notes that fatty liver is bad, maybe worse than visceral fat in general.