It clarifies previous studies. Being obese is still bad for your health. Being merely fat still leads to the same kinds of problems it did before. What they're showing is that being thin can be associated with some other health problems, whereas before we hadn't really looked at that.
X-Man: misunderstanding science since 1963. I need to install that killfile on this computer...
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