At last some good news for the fatties
I COULD just imagine the cheers emanating from millions of fatties when they read that the health risks associated with obesity belong to myth not science.
The study, carried out by Ohio State University, shows what I have thought all along: that if you are grossly obese then, yes, your health must be at risk but that many who are being told they are overweight according to some arbitrary measurement are not at risk at all if they have good genes.
The problem has been that, as usual, the experts have got carried away. Nobody thinks being too fat to run is sensible or healthy but when a trim, active five-year-old child is sent home with a letter for her parents telling them that she is at risk because she weighs fractionally more than she should we know the lunatics have taken over with a wad of forms and boxes to tick and inflexible rules.
I am 62 and rather too tubby for the experts but I have not an ache or pain or regular pill in sight. By contrast many of my size 10, gym-loving, mueslicrunching contemporaries are already queueing up for new hips and knees.
They did everything by the book but sadly the genes didn’t help. So if you are a size 16 but can still run up the stairs without too much panting don’t let the experts get you down.