Whoppers and the End of an Epidemic
Author: John Luik
Article Published: 22/04/2005
Apart from this huge downward revision in the numbers of people supposedly dying from fat, there are several things in this study which signal the end of any legitimate linkage between obesity and premature death. First, for the merely overweight with BMI's from 25-30 there is no excess mortality. In fact, being overweight was "associated with a slight reduction in mortality relative to the normal weight category." Being overweight not only does not lead to premature death, something that dozens of other studies from around the world have been saying for the last 30 years, but it also carries less risk from premature death than being "normal" weight. In other words the overweight=early death "fact" proclaimed by the public health community is simply not true.
Ian Dunbar, United Kingdom
Bill Brown, USA
John Dunn, MD, United States
Andrew Phillips, Canada
Pat Nurse, United Kingdom
Elio F. Gagliano, MD, Italy
Edmund Contoski, USA
John Luik, Canada
Norman Kjono, USA
Gian Turci, Italy
Søren Højbjerg, Denmark