"Our study challenges the idea that all obese individuals need to lose weight," said Dr. Jennifer Kuk, assistant professor in York University's School of Kinesiology & Health Science in Toronto. One in five obese people may not have medical problems, the authors estimated.
Date: Aug 15, 2011
Category: Health
Source: Google
Healthy obese people may live as long as thin folks
"This illustrates that you can't have one sweeping brush to categorize all obese individuals," said study researcher Jennifer Kuk, an assistant professor at York University in Toronto. People need to look at whether they have additional risk factors indicating poor health to determine whether they s