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What really irritates me, however, is when science becomes the tool of fashion and a rationale for condemning fat people even more because they impose some kind of "burden" on our health care system. Is Being Overweight Really Bad for Our Health? First, let's get fat loss one thing straight. The fashionable fat loss definition of "overweight" fat loss is "doesn't look absolutely lean when naked." That should have nothing to do with the scientific definition, however -- or the medical one. We've heard that overweight kills more than 300,000 Americans a year. We've been warned that as we get fatter, we'll have an epidemic of adult-onset diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. But what if overweight is a result of adult-onset diabetes, or a co-result of the same underlying cause as diabetes? And do we know whether that estimate of an "epidemic" of heart disease and cancer takes into account the medical advances we have already made in the treatment of both conditions?
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