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Is Being Fat Bad For You?

Maintenance Phase

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What Is the Relationship Between Obesity and Mortality?

For the vast majority of people who are in either the overweight category or class one obesity, like low grade fat people, that's what we're really talking about. And then there are these categories of much fatter people. Once you get to bmis above like 35 or forty, it's like somewhere between like two and five % of americans rate very consistent correlations that like, those people have like, very elevated mortality rates. They have much higher rates of heart disease. Yes, it's a small number people. It's me. I'm in that category. High everybody.

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