The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the research that has come out since then is suggesting that it's probably not a paradox as paradoxes often are not and that it's a an artifact of those observational data that essentially there are probably a few different things going on but the biggest one is that people who are sick often lose weight
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and so there are many health conditions that can cause a person to lose weight and essentially the concern was that that makes leanness look worse than it really is because you're getting all these people in the lean category that are lean because they're sick they're not sick because they're lean so some people have called that reverse causation