Obesity Paradox: When Fat Only Seems Healthy

Obese patients with heart disease do better and live longer than leaner patients with the same severity of disease, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The study's authors, from the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, refer to fat's seemingly protective effect in this regard as the "obesity paradox."

So surely it must be a good thing that 70 percent of Americans are overweight; this way they can better recover from the heart disease that they likely never would have had if they were thinner. Click here for full article.