These stories come in two flavours - the first one denies the very existence of an obesity epidemic, attributing the rise in obesity statistics to moving definitions that "suddenly" make everyone obese simply by shifting the goal post.
The second flavor of obesity myths acknowledges the increase in people with excess weight but states that carrying a few extra pounds or even having more severe obesity is not really detrimental to your health, ergo this whole obesity thing is vastly overblown.
Last week, news media around the world once again splashed Obesity Myth headlines on their front pages, this time of the second flavor - yes obesity exists, but it is really not a health risk.
These reports were based on a study by Brant Jarrett and
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