'Fitness and fatness': Not all obese people have the same prognosis; second study sheds light on 'obesity paradox'

People can be obese but metabolically healthy and fit, with no greater risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular disease or cancer than normal weight people, according to the largest study ever to have investigated this seeming paradox.

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