Fitness: Fit vs. fat — it's time to stop using a scale to measure success

Back in the mid-1990s, when researcher Steven Blair introduced the idea that thinness wasn’t synonymous with fitness, chubby fitness fanatics everywhere rejoiced.
His landmark study was the first to suggest that fitness trumped fatness when it comes to overall health, concluding that a lack of exercise poses a greater risk to health than being overweight. Blair’s results, along with several subsequent studies confirming his findings, sparked the term “metabolically healthy obes