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The idea that being overweight has health risks is a part of our national and medical identity. It is even reflected in our standards of beauty. However, new scientific facts are creating a massive paradigm shift in the truth about being overweight.
New studies in Japan and North America have shown that people who are slightly overweight (meaning a BMI of 25-29.9, or about 150-179 pounds) have lower mortality rates than people who are at "target" weight. What was even more surprising was that being underweight was more dangerous than being obese. In the North American study, being underweight was actually twice as deadly as being obese.