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May 11, 2007

SkinnyFat

"Being thin doesn't automatically mean you're not fat," said Dr. Jimmy Bell, a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College, London, England. Without warning signals -- like a rounder middle -- doctors worry thin people may be lulled into falsely assuming that because they're not overweight, they're healthy. Even people with normal body mass index scores -- a standard obesity measure that divides your weight by the square of your height -- can have surprising levels of fat deposits inside.

Looking back, when I was 98 pounds and wearing a size 10 or 12, I was all kinds of unhealthy. Gawd, people, this should be obvious by now GET MOVING GET MOVING GET MOVING!

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