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I'm always suspicious when I read articles like this that claim to tell the "real story" when "everyone else" is lying, so I looked up the author:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Campos

> Campos is perhaps best known for his 2004 book The Obesity Myth (later published as The Diet Myth) which reviews medical research on the association between higher body mass and health. Campos's contentions that obesity is healthy were praised by some sociologists and critical theorists, and overwhelmingly criticized by medical, epidemiological, and statistical researchers with professional training in empirical research.

So he's a professional at this kind of manipulation.