"I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder"

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Here's one. Looks like it's healthier in the long run to be a few pounds overweight than underweight. This was a followup to a 2005 study that came to the same findings. Sorry if someone else has already posted this, I haven't read every post in this thread yet.

Interesting. I notice it's the first thing that comes up in google too, from a quick search of the term "overweight is healthier".

There's a few factors this study doesn't seem to address.

BMI is a notoriously bad gauge of how healthy someone is. A study based entirely on assessing people via BMI is not one I'm inclined to find compelling. The study didn't take into consideration many other factors, like general fitness levels.

The best argument I could see being made from this, is that skinny people can be just as unhealthy as overweight people. Something I've never denied. Or maybe, just maybe, using the BMI scale is a terrible thing to use. The very fact that the study is based entirely on BMI just makes it null and void from the start.