Oddball news: obese patients fare better after heart attacks

Talk about odd news -- this one qualifies. In recent research from Europe, it was discovered that obese patients have only half the risk of dying after a heart attack compared to heart attack victims of normal weight.

The lead researcher concluded that "Once a heart attack has occurred and been optimally treated, obese patients switch to a more favorable prognosis compared to normal-weight patients."

This should not be any reason to throw everything we know about healthy nutrition out the window and start becoming more obese than we already are, although I do think this is very good news for current obese and morbidly obese people who are stressing their bodies to the limit with all those extra pounds.