The only thing worse than a bad study is when the mainstream media buys into it and spreads the nonsense to millions of people.

Take a new study on obesity, which concludes that overweight young adults are just as healthy as normal- weight adults –because they take the same amount of meds.

You’d have to make a living selling fast food to believe this, yet the mainstream is just eating it up. Here’s how HealthDay news covered it:

There’s good news for fat people who are nearing middle age: A new study finds that judged by medication use alone, 25-to-39-year-olds who are classified as obese aren’t more likely to suffer illness than people of normal weight.

Good news? Good grief!

There’s nothing good about obesity, and this study doesn’t change that. Just look at the key phrase in there: “judged by medication alone.”

In other words, this study doesn’t prove that fat people are healthy as they approach middle age –it just proves they don’t use more meds. Many of them may have undiagnosed illnesses, like the millions of people who don’t know that they have diabetes.

Eventually, the ravages of all that extra weight will catch up to you, and this study even proves it: After the age of 40, overweight people use far more meds than those who have healthy weights.

But let’s get back to the younger folks, because even in this case they had to really twist the numbers to get the result they wanted. For example, the researchers excluded psychiatric meds and any other drugs not linked to a direct physical disorder.

It might make sense to some people–they’re just trying to measure how many people need drugs specifically due to obesity, right?

But that just shows how little they understand nutrition, because the same diets that make bellies bulge can starve brains, depriving people of all the minerals and nutrients they need to stay mentally balanced.

That’s why so many people who suffer from mental problems such as depression and attention deficit disorders recover when they eat better.

And while fat young adults might be taking roughly the same number of meds as thin ones now, that will change real soon.

Since 2001, there’s been a 30 percent increase in adolescents taking drugs for chronic conditions, many of them tied to obesity. The use of diabetes meds alone has skyrocketed–up 150 percent in that time. There’s also been a 50 percent surge in the number of children on cholesterol meds, and a 24 percent rise in kids on blood pressure meds.

Still think obesity is fine in younger people? Think again.

Remember, there is no such thing as being fat and healthy. Obesity is a long-term recipe for complete self-destruction –and anyone who tells you otherwise is just spreading a big, fat lie.