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by pedro_hab 1931 days ago
They have a "Role of BMI" section which strengthens your point.

> BMI accounted for a substantial proportion

In the "Role of BMI" they also say that BMI isn't perfect to detect adiposity, suggesting even further that being fat is what you want to avoid.

> Finally, given the observational nature of this study, it is possible that there is still unmeasured confounding, residual confounding, and reverse causality.

Studying human diets is hard.