There was a recent post on one of the forums I visit regularly today regarding an article someone posted that claimed benefits to being overweight and that being a factor in lesser chances of dying from heart disease amongst other things. That's a switch. Of course the article was met with much disention, some claiming the poster wanted merely to grasp at straws to compensate for their own overweightness. But straws or not, it was an actual article, written by, and researched by doctors. So fair game. Personally I think the medical community would like there to be far greater risks with being overweight than there actually are. In fact, I think many healthy levels for a lot of things like cholesterol, blood pressure, weight, just to name a few have been lowered quite a bit just to boost the need for more pharmacudicals to prevent problems as much as to treat them... and if you pay any attention to the vast number of commercials that are so common now you'd question the horrible side effects of many of those very drugs. Many times the cure can be worse than the original problem. It seems now too, like every other commercial on tv is for some sort of drug. Growing up I can't remember hardly ever seeing any. Can you? Just another sign of the times, and how very important it is financially to the medical community to promote our 'lack of health' to further their own needs.