Yesterday's Washington Post carried an article about a recently-published analysis of data captured by the 1994-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) which concluded, basically, that a) a lot of fat people are fit and b) a lot of thin people aren't. (Yes, I know, that's a crude way of saying "Among US adults, there is a high prevalence of clustering of cardiometabolic abnormalities among normal-weight individuals and a high prevalence of overweight and obese individuals who are metabolically healthy.)
This comes shortly after studies by researchers from Michigan State University and Hope College "with findings tending to refute commonly held stereotypes about the personality traits of overweight employees" (those stereotypes being that overweight job applicants and employees are "less conscientiousness, less agreeable, less emotionally stable, and less extraverted than their "normal-weight" counterparts").
Are we starting to see a reassessment of the conventional wisdom of the last five to ten years regarding obesity (i.e., it's a major public health menace and must be fought with vigor on several fronts)? Or are these just some random research artifacts?
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