I could kiss you. Thank you. Have you a link you could provide for the paper itself?  So basically, hearing the hard truth about the dangers of being overweight further increases heart disease? So those who are ignorant or willfully refuse to accept the dangers of being grossly overweight are ironically somewhat 'healthier' than obese people who are stressed about being obese or hearing about the dangers of being obese? I can see how HAES is going to try to spin this. "Willfull refusal to get depressed about obese is healthy for you! Science said so! Don't listen to what your doctor said about needing to lose weight, that will upset you and that's bad for your heart!!!"  (That pesky science they also refuse to believe when it doesn't conform to their agenda). I'm being slightly tongue in cheek.  As for stress leading to higher mortality, colour me astounded. Who would have EVER thought that prolonged rapid heartbeat and  excessive secreteing of adrenaline and other fight or flight hormones would be unhealthy and dangerous.... Sorry, I think my bile has actually overtaken my humour.