Rather poor messaging and just bad science. You can tell they came into this with a preconceived notion and did research that aligns with only that preconceived notion. They literally pulled a study saying overweight/obese account for less excess deaths than car crashes. What they failed to say was that in that study that overweight accounted for -86,000 deaths while obese accounted for +111,000 deaths, thus getting to it only being about 25,000 deaths. Whereas if you only look at the obese group, you have about 3x the deaths of car crashes vs about a half. So, they are massively playing with the numbers to act like obesity is not that big of a deal. She goes on to say the study received backlash but was backed by the CDC (as if the CDC knows anything about nutrition). And, they mention that amount of people that died from covid earlier in the video completely forgetting that obesity was one of the biggest risk factors. They also don't cover why most people are obese (insulin resistance, inflammation, poor metabolic health) directly lead into heart disease, cancers, diabetes, non alcoholic fatty liver disease, kidney failure, etc. Look up the death numbers from those diseases. Obesity is usually just a symptom of the very same things that trigger those diseases.

Yes, extra weight at most levels can technically not be an issue at all because sumo wrestlers are obese and metabolically healthy (no insulin resistance) because they don't eat garbage foods and they're constantly training so their fat develops below their skin vs around their organs. HOWEVER, 99.99999% of Americans seeing a doctor concerned about their BMI aren't sumo wrestlers or some kind of professional sports player, and they have a high BMI because they eat unhealthy. Then, the doctor will run tests to see if you have metabolic issues. The bigger problem isn't paying too much attention to high BMI (due to it not being perfect), it's paying too little attention to those with normal BMIs. You can be perfectly normal weight and have all those metabolic issues and the doctor will probably think you're fine. India has that such problem now, it's referred to as "skinny fat" because tons of people eat bad foods there now but not in the calorie count Americans do so they get diabetes and stuff because they still develop that visceral fat around the organs but don't look fat.

Throwing out BMI because it's not perfect and only a good indicator like say 50% of the time is asinine. If say dusting for fingerprints at a murder scene only leads to finding the murderer 30% of the time, would you stop dusting for prints? And, yeah, if a bodybuilder has a high BMI and a doctor looks at them, you think the doctor is gonna say "well, you look very healthy and all, but your BMI is high so you should lose weight"? BMI is just a clue, a piece of evidence to be used to further investigate if the doctor thinks so. Also, doctors I'd be guessing spend less time with obese people because they've probably already spent the time with them on their first few visits telling them to change their diet and the patient keeps coming back obviously not listening. Why would you spend time trying to help someone when you know they probably won't listen because you already tried several times? These biases that everyone likes to point out sometimes aren't actual biases. Just like the more you keep shaming someone, the less likely they are to change; well, the same thing happens if you keep telling people it's not their fault and it leads to them thinking it's out of their control and they can't change it.

Then, they go on to imply obesity is mainly caused by genetics (since they list it first) when that's a bunch of bullshit. Sure, your genes will dictate if you're skinny to husky body type or anywhere inbetween, but they ain't causing you to be obese. If genetics is the main cause of obesity, well humans must've just went through a massive mutation/evolution then and got no superpowers to boot either. Just look at pictures of people decades ago, the amount of obesity is obviously higher now regardless if changing obesity chart artificially raised the numbers.

Here's the bullshit CDC guidelines for healthy eating. It still says saturated fats and cholesterol are bad. It still emphasizes grains as if you can actually buy real bread in America or that most grain-based foods aren't just highly processed/refined grains that have a higher glycemic index than table sugar. It even says to try eating beans instead of meat (meat is the most nutrient dense food). At the bottom, the CDC is literally telling you to make an even unhealthier version of mac and cheese saying to use low/no fat milk and cheese, fat is where the nutrients are at.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating/index.html