IS BEING FAT DANGEROUS

Two other signs suggested the CDC was backing off the report. Its Web site now says the study "estimates that obesity is related to about 112,000 deaths." In fact, the study started with that number and then subtracted the benefits of being modestly overweight, arriving at the 25,814 figure. The study's author, Katherine Flegal, also was not at the Thursday news conference. Instead, Gerberding and Donna Stroup — authors of the previous study setting obesity-related deaths much higher — did the talking.

Afterward, the Center for Consumer Freedom, a group with ties to the restaurant and food industry, repeated its claim that CDC has knowingly misled the public about the scope of the obesity problem. However, scientists said they were relieved that CDC was returning to the big-picture message, that obesity is a serious and growing health problem.

"This issue is far too important to be trivialized over methodological disagreements," Thun said. "We really can't afford to become complacent about this epidemic of obesity and certainly not based on findings from an analysis" that is flawed, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Also on Thursday, the Institute of Medicine released a report from a workshop last December that gives a roadmap for improving research on obesity and deaths.

"We are taking it seriously," Gerberding said of the report. - Courtesy AP Newswire

ORDER L.A. DIET NOW !!
CLICK HERE !!
LOSE WEIGHT !!
ORDER L.A. DIET NOW !!

Lose Weight
With The LA Diet NOW! We know you will lose all the weight you want to lose.
Guaranteed!