Too thin or too fat

Is it better to be too thin or too fat

Abe (by SMS)

A new study has concluded that being too thin can be more deadly than being overweight or mildly obese—and with researchers concluding it is possible to be ‘fat but fit’.’ 

The fat but fit category included people with a BMI ranging between 25 and 30—who are technically overweight—and people with a BMI of 30 to 35 whose weight puts them in the lower end of the obese range.

In contrast, their analysis found people in the underweight category—which is classed as a BMI of 18.5 and under—were 2.7 times more likely to have died than the reference population.

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‘One possible reason for extremely thin people to be in danger is reverse causation—some people may lose weight because of an underlying illness.’In those cases, it is the illness not the low weight itself that increases the risk of death, which can make it look like having a higher BMI is protective.