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Thursday, October 8th, 2009 For years it has been thought that obesity did have one single health advantage: less risk of osteoporosis. A study by Dr. Jean-Marc Kaufman of Gent University Hospital in Belgium has now debunked that notion.
Dr. Kaufman found that men with more fat actually had smaller, thinner bones than lean men with larger muscle mass. [...]