Dr. Chip Lavie: The Obesity Paradox
Underground Wellness Radio
Sean Croxton
4.6 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Chip Lavie, author of The Obesity Paradox, reveals why thinner can mean sicker and heavier can mean healthier. Find out why being oveweight or obese on the BMI scale can protect those with heart disease, diabetes, HIV, arthritis, cancer, and more. You’ll also learn what REALLY matter when it comes to longevity. And why endurance training can actually shorten your lifespan.
Here's what we talked about:
2:26 – How Dr. Lavie discovered The Obesity Paradox almost by mistake. Do overweight, obese or people of normal weight have the better prognosis?
8:29 – Death by weight: What a huge study of 2.9 million people showed us about weight and mild obesity.
10:42 – Are the obese doing really well or is everyone else just really bad? The connection between your BMI, body fat percentage and muscle mass.
16:24 – Some surprising stats bust through common myths about weight and disease and what it means to be “metabolically healthy” regardless of how much you weigh.
19:32 – Calories in vs. calories out: a different take from Dr. Lavie and where/when he thinks we’ve gone wrong.
24:00 – What fitness really means when it comes to the obesity paradox and why a little extra weight does not equal doomsday.
27:27 – Does it matter where your fat is? How some of your fat could be protecting you (thank your thighs!)
32:15 – FIT vs. FAT. Which one always wins the fight for your health and why.
35:39 – “Fit” isn’t as hard as it sounds: the best ways to move (and eat) to maximize long-term benefits.
42:33 – The future of fat: Will we ever be able to accept it?
44:46 – The obesity overlap and why it is so hard to prove whether or not it is a disease or just guilty by association.
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 324 of Underground Wellness Radio. |
| 0:03.1 | Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:04.5 | The overweight BMI, 25 to 30, had the best survival, a 6% lower mortality that was statistically significant compared with the normal BMI. |
| 0:16.8 | That it may not be that the obese are doing so good. |
| 0:21.4 | It may be that the lean are doing surprisingly bad. |
| 0:25.0 | But you can't say by the day to today |
| 0:28.5 | that having overweightness and at least mild obesity |
| 0:32.7 | is causing you to die more. |
| 0:36.1 | Here we go. |
| 0:44.9 | Music is causing you to die more. Here we go. Yo, what's up y'all? |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Underground Wellness Radio, |
| 0:48.1 | brought to you by Underground Wellness.com. |
| 0:50.6 | Today's episode rocks. |
| 0:52.5 | It is stuff that I'm sure you've never heard before. It is the opposite of what you've heard before. And it makes sense and it's backed by science and it comes from a really good source. And go get the book, Obesity Paradox. And here's Chip Levy. Dr. Levy, welcome to Underground Wellness Radio. Great to be with you, Sean. |
| 1:12.0 | It's really great to have you here. |
| 1:14.1 | And as I was telling you before we started recording, I love your book. |
| 1:18.1 | And it's one of those books that when you open it now, it's fully yellow because I went |
| 1:23.7 | through pretty much an entire highlighter reading your book because there's so much great |
| 1:27.1 | stuff in there. And I woke up this morning and I had six pages of notes that I had typed out. And I was like, there's no way that we're going to be able to cover all of this information. So I had to pare it down this morning. We're going to hit all the high notes because it's just such an incredible book. Thanks so much for putting it together. Well, thank you, Sean. Yeah, and what I like about it is that it's different. |
| 1:46.2 | Like I read a lot of, I read a lot of books. book. Thanks so much for putting it together. Well, thank you, Sean. Yeah, and what I like about it |
| 1:44.7 | is that it's different. Like, I read a lot of, I read a lot of books for the show, and there's a lot of |
| 1:49.5 | similar content, just kind of put together in a different way, packaged in a different way. |
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