Sowley: I get so exhausted by this as a fat person, as a woman, definitely. The thing that i have been taught to trust uncritically is from deeply, deeply, deeply human sources. So fast forward to 20 13. Partly in response to the criticisms of her two thousand five article, flegel starts working on a much bigger meta analysis. We have this spike of mortality for the thinnest people, and then you have a reduction in mortality for the overweight people,. And then it's higher for fat people.