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BMI Doesn't Really Tell You Anything About Your Health

Your weight actually isn’t a very reliable predictor of heart health or diabetes risk, according to a new study from obesity researchers. Nearly half of overweight people, 29 percent of obese people and 16 percent of morbidly obese people were found to be metabolically healthy when the researchers examined data for 40,000 people. This means those folks weren’t at risk for type 2 diabetes or heart disease.

 

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