Surprising Results

As I was doing some research for the upcoming presentation, I came across an article that presents research that links being overweight to a lower risk of mortality. I found these results interesting because I have always been told the opposite. The conclusion presented in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that the detailed review of over 100 previously published papers connected body weight and mortality risk among 2.88 million study participants around the world. Although the new research confirms that obese people tend to die before those of normal people, the findings also suggest that people who are overweight (but not overweight) may live longer than those who have a clinically normal weight. Although these results have gotten a lot of negative feedback, dozens of other researchers have been able to reproduce the same results. Overall, I found these results to be interesting.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/health/overweight-mortality