Fat is beautiful??

We found 40 studies with 250,152 patients that had a mean follow-up of 3·8 years. Patients with a low body-mass index (BMI) (ie, <20) had an increased relative risk (RR) for total mortality, and cardiovascular mortality, overweight (BMI 25–29.9) had the lowest risk for total mortality and cardiovascular mortality compared with those for people with a normal BMI. Obese patients (BMI 30–35) had no increased risk for total mortality or cardiovascular mortality. Patients with severe obesity (≥35) did not have increased total mortality but they had the highest risk for cardiovascular mortality.
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." Dr. Frank Moody, a professor of surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and a pioneer of weight-loss surgeries, told the Houston Chronicle: "I think the medical community may need to lighten up on the overweight group a little bit ... Some people keep using the word epidemic to describe obesity, and I don't know if that's an appropriate description of what's going on, but it scares people."