article_snippet.sent: Professor David Haslam, a GP and chairman of the National Obesity Forum, says something called the obesity paradox is at work: 'Obesity increases your chances of developing disorders such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes
article_snippet.sent: the obesity paradox had been called 'surreal and unsettling', but the obesity paradox does seem to be real.
article_snippet.sent: We need to understand the obesity paradox.'
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm Kendrick, a GP and author with an interest in obesity, claimed in Malcolm Kendrick, a GP and author with an interest in obesity recent book Doctoring Data that being overweight was beneficial.
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm Kendrick, a GP and author with an interest in obesity is suspicious of the word 'paradox' when used with a medical hypothesis: 'It is usually a way of describing something that contradicts your theory.
article_snippet.sent: For instance, people who believe high cholesterol causes heart disease use the phrase 'cholesterol paradox' to explain why countries with high levels of cholesterol have low levels of heart disease.
article_snippet.sent: countries with high levels of cholesterol should admit countries with high levels of cholesterol theory is wrong.'