I've yet to meet any medical doctor that feels being in the obese range is OK.  Overweight?   Yes, I think that many people can be overweight and still very healthy.

Please don't attack my stats, when you have provided no citations of your own.

And I did also post further in this discussion a reference to a study published this month by the Cleveland Clinic's Heart and Vascular Institute, which is considered to be the number one rated heart program in our country.   And their study shows that things have gotten dramatically worse in the last 5 years.   So if you think that this UK study is bad, take a look at this new one.  It shows obesity and diabetes dramatically up, with people getting heart attacks at a younger age.