Study finds benefits of "excess" pounds

I think we can safely say the "obesity pandemic" is a media creation.

You never hear of the fact that much of this phenomenon resulted from the government changing the definition of "overweight" to include more people. Using the current "official" BMI standard, a mild sniffle would likely kill you if you had the "correct" weight.

Now a new study says being slightly "overweight" may actually help you live longer. The report published in the journal Obesity says that people who were "overweight" were 17% less likely to die than those of "normal" weight.

This study isn't just a fluke. Scientists at the Center for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute reported similar findings in 2007. Interestingly, that study was hardly ever reported in the press.

This is as much of a media issue as it is a health issue. Much of the popular interest in unrealistic weight loss goals was fueled by vanity and elitism, which in turn was backed by makers of diet drugs and other hawkers of horrid diet products.

In recent years, this became more driven by a desire to cover up other stories, especially after the 104th Reich's 1996 bailout of media monopolies.

For instance, if some government scandal appears on the horizon, a glut of hackneyed stories about weight loss seems to swoop in from nowhere to knock the real news off the front page.

This also serves the purpose of shifting blame for bad health statistics onto the public. Instead of confronting environmental pollution, a broken health care system, tainted food, and overwork, our corporate overlords can just say our problems are our fault instead of theirs.

I am 100% convinced that's what's been going on.

Will the new study get much press? Don't count on it. At all. So far, I've only seen it covered in the New York Times.

I'd also be willing to bet that the cover-up is even deeper than it appears.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/health/26weight.html)