It's an oxymoron to say fat people are healthy. No doctor in the world would agree with you.

Our friend above has not graduated from college and he is talking about fat people being stupid. Classic

M, read the complete study. This is done on people over 70 years old and the sample size was fairly small. It's interesting but not conclusive by any means.

The latest study that lasted for five years and included 2,200 adults finds a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive functions. Participants belonged to an age group raging from 32 to 62. They needed to take four mental ability tests before the study started and then again five years later.

However, cross-sectional studies conducted on Danish draftees showed a clear inverse association between BMI above the median BMI and both intelligence test score and educational level. The same tendencies have also been seen in a Chinese study in children. These cross-sectional observations raise the obvious question of whether cognitive ability and educational level are determinants or consequences of changes in body weight and development of obesity. Therefore, some Danish researchers investigated intelligence test scores and educational levels in young adult men in relation to their subsequent changes in weight and risk of development and persistence of obesity.Subjects were selected among men appearing at Danish draft boards. The men were divided into two groups: A group with juvenile-onset obesity, including all men with a BMI of greater than 31 kg/[m.sup.2]; and a non-obese group randomly selected as a 1% sample of the study population. The obese group and 50% of the non-obese group were invited to participate in follow-up studies between 1982 and 1984 and between 1992 and 1994. Among 907 men with juvenile-onset obesity and 883 non-obese men, age, region of examination, intelligence test score via the Borge Priens Prove 1953 test, education and BMI from baseline to first follow-up, were analyzed.
Within both groups, BMI significantly increased from baseline to both the first and second follow-ups. Education and intelligence, analyzed separately, were inversely related to BMI changes in both groups. A greater increase in BMI at the first follow-up occurred in the lowest intelligence test-score quintiles and in the group of less educated men in the non-obese control group. When adjusted for education, the association between intelligence score and BMI changes and the development of obesity vanished, whereas the inverse relationship for education persisted only for BMI changes. Intelligence score was not associated with the persistence of obesity in the obese group, whereas inverse relationships were found for education. The highest educated group had less than half the odds of remaining obese compared with the lowest-educated group.

My cholestoral level is actually low, both LDL and HDL. I love fruits and vegetables. My blood pressure is well under pre-hypertension. My resting heart rate is on the low side. My blood sugar is well within norms. Until I started back to school full time (so I am working as an engineer full time AND taking masters classes full time and holding a 3.67 GPA) I worked out 5 days a week an hour or more a day doing cardio 3 days a week and weight training 2 days a week with a personal trainer. At this weight. You want to strap on that much extra weight and see what that takes? I would garuntee you couldn't keep up.

An estimated 30 percent of American adults - about 60 million people - are obese, the CDC says. Experts know that every additional pound of fat puts more force on the body's joints.
The load adds to more wear and tear on cartilage and appears to cause joint pain, even for kids.
A study released this month in Pediatrics suggests that overweight children are more likely to have joint pain - pain that could be the first sign of crumbling cartilage.
VICIOUS CYCLE
Joints that ache can set off a cycle of weight gain and disease, experts say. Kids and adults stop moving much because of the pain, they gain weight, and that puts more pressure on weight-bearing joints such as the knees and the hips.
By their 40s or 50s, many overweight Americans have the joints of the average senior citizen, says Erin Arnold, a rheumatologist at the Illinois Bone & Joint Institute in Chicago.