Obesity is widely viewed as the nation’s biggest health problem. But research last week showing that one-third of obese people are “metabolically” healthy suggests that health can’t be judged by fat alone.Many overweight and obese people are metabolically healthy, while large numbers of slim people have health problems typically associated with obesity, a new study shows.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/for-health-body-size-can-be-misleading/

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/for-the-overweight-a-new-definition-of-health/

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