Too Fat for 15

[AOII Angel]

All this talk about thin people being as unhealthy as overweight people is a load of BS. Alumiyum, you were borderline DM2 mainly because of the luck of a genetic predisposition, not because of eating habits at 102 pounds. Being a little more fastidious helps, but without that genetic predisposition, you would not be DM2. Type 2 diabetes is a disease of the obese and a few groups of non-obese people with a genetic predisposition. There's not an epidemic of thin people with diabetes because they eat fast food and don't work out.

A telling study was done that showed followed four groups of people, thin people who exercised, thin people who did no exercise, obese people who exercised and obese people who did no exercise. The study clearly demonstrated that thin people had less health risks with or without exercise than obese people. Obese people who exercise did better than obese people who did no exercise, but they did NOT do better than thin people who did no exercise. As much as people would like to believe that you can be "healthy" as a normal weight person if you are obese, it is simplty not true. You can be close if you do the recommended amount of exercise, but lets be honest, how many people who are obese can and do participate in that much physical activity?