Obesity is an epidemic in much of the western world, but is it really all that bad? The Obesity Paradox is the name given to something unexpected that some scientists have found when it comes to how obesity affects health...



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References & Further Reading

Obesity

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-weight/bmi-calculator/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/obesity/

https://www.who.int/health-topics/obesity#tab=tab_1

https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1050

https://www.science.org/content/article/obesity-doesn-t-always-mean-ill-health-here-s-what-scientists-are-learning

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333682-800-have-we-got-the-science-of-obesity-back-to-front/



Obesity Paradox

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/well/obesity-paradox-fails-to-hold-up-in-study.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813817/

https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo201799

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40519-019-00815-4

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180315203916.htm

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.28.20082800v1

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7221058/

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(21)00562-6/fulltext