Fat is inherently unhealthy for you beyond some low baseline level.

Additional muscle is positive for health, but only up to some reasonable threshold. There is no health benefit to having very high levels of muscle, and in fact it may be negative for your health at extreme levels. E.g. many bodybuilders have trouble breathing, sleep apnea etc.

Both people in the example have 60lbs of fat. 1lb of muscle doesn't cancel out the negative health effect of 1lb of fat

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mathgeek an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Looking for some references on these claims, thanks! What you're saying registers as "makes some sense, but where's the evidence?" to me. I'm not seeing the connection where total lbs of fat is inherently worse than higher percentage.

	▲	Noaidi 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You won’t find any reference for those claims. Did you know that the majority of people who have heart attacks have normal lipid levels? It’s not the fat that kills. It’s oxidated lipids that kill.

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sarchertech an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Do short people have much lower risk of heart disease?

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		Some are more common in short people and some are more common in tall people. Hypertension is one of the ones more common in short people and is significantly more common than the rest combined, so your overall chance of having some form of heart disease goes down as you get taller. However, the forms of cardiovascular disease more common in tall people (e.g. atrial fibrillation) are more likely to actually kill you.
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