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Men and women in America are bombarded with images of thinness. The majority of the television and magazine advertisements feature slim women, and most of the movies and television shows are peopled by women with small figures. As a result, we all tend to believe that being thin means being fit, while being fat means being unfit. However, this is not always the case! A report that appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine in August 2008 indicates that overweight people can be metabolically healthy with low levels of cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose and other cardiovascular risk indicators. Alternately, the report shows that one out of four thin people (those who fell into what is deemed a "healthy" weight range) had at least two risk factors for cardiovascular problems usually associated with obesity. These findings seem to suggest that, in essence, fat people can not only be fit, but [more..]