An increasing number of obesity experts are concluding that “many, if not most, people with serious weight problems can be hardly blamed for their rotund shape,” reports The New York Times.
... “At least half of obese people—those who are more than 30 percent overweight—who try to diet down to ‘desirable’ weights listed in the height-weight tables suffer medically, physically and psychologically as a result, and would be better off fat,” said Dr. George Blackburn, an obesity specialist at Harvard Medical School, according to the article.