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> Most people are overweight, and from what I've seen of modern studies, the health risk of being overweight is almost negligible.

Health risks of being overweight are very well researched and are significant (cancer risk, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular health). If you meant the mortality, then it is also worse for overweight people when confounding for smoking and reverse causality.



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