Balance of Food

To finally make it clear (hopefully), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said weighing too much is not healthy. CDC chief Dr. Julie Gerberding acknowledged potential flaws in the study that suggested being overweight isn't that bad. "It is not OK to be overweight. People need to be fit, they need to have a healthy diet, they need to exercise," Gerberding told the Associated Press. "I'm very sorry for the confusion that these scientific discussions have had." Many scientists noted that the study's main flaw is that it included people with health problems ranging from cancer to heart disease, who tend to weigh less because of those problems and therefore make pudgy people look healthy by comparison. While each person is different. . . generally, overweight = not so good. If you are 10 pounds overweight, that's not so bad. If that number is more like 50-70 pounds overweight, that's not so good. And if you are in that latter category, losing 20 pounds makes you still overweight, but you are much closer to that goal even if you lose some.