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Guest Post By Dr. J (with Additional Contrarian Input by Crabby McSlacker)
Many of you are already acquainted with the knowledgeable and amusing Dr. J, who blogs over at Calorie Lab. He's a maxillofacial surgeon, as well as a dedicated runner and a pilot. Dr. J kindly sent me a very interesting article he wrote and let me share it here.
And in return for his generosity? I'm gonna jump in afterwards and wrassle with him a little, offering a slightly different take.
Obnoxious? Sure! Stupid? Possibly! Because Dr. J is an actual physician plus he has a black belt in karate.
But Dr. J is also an old blog pal who knows I agree with him on about 98% of health and fitness matters and I suspect I'd have to work pretty hard to get him riled. He's just more of a Tough Love kinda guy than I am when it comes to certain questions of lifestyle and health.
So what's the tussle about?
A study of obesity and life satisfaction that Dr. J dug up suggests: in communities where obesity is common, being obese has little negative effect on life satisfaction.
Wow, right? This I did not know.
Going by everything I've read, I thought it was kinda tough to be obese, and that a lot of things just sucked more, and that people were generally more satisfied with their lives after they'd lost weight.
So, if you're curious to see what the Doctor and the Crab think about all this...
