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Correlation does not imply causation, if overweight people are more prone to health conditions, it might not be the weight itself, but unhealthy habits, such as over eating or as in the second link you posted, a high fat diet, in this way the weight is a possible symptom, not the cause of these conditions. Its certainly possible to be "fat" and eat healthy and be active and not have a worry in the world, and its possible to be skinny and eat nothing but cholesterol and die at age 40.
What I was alluding to earlier about the size thing is that its hard to say who's fat and who's not. In the first link, they used BMI which is holy hell unreliable, again it tells me I'm anorexic and it tells MC that she's obese. A year or two ago I posted something in spooky news about someone quitting a fashion show because the designer decided to use "plus sized" models, who were size 12. Most people said that 12 is fat, 8 is the ideal attractive size. It got pretty ugly, and just goes to show that the definition of what is fat is often very subjective.
Which is why I prefer to say "sizeism" anyway.
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