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So Apparently I'm the Highlander

Jun 21, 2009
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Food

Great news:

Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longer.

People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average life expectancy was shorter by some five years than that of obese people, the study found.

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  1. matt  •  Jun 21, 2009 @1:06 pm

    no i am !! there can be only one!!

  2. Mike  •  Jun 21, 2009 @2:47 pm

    Makes sense. The science behind Calorie Restriction (super thin) is sound on a cellular level. But what is the survival rate for people who look like this guy?
    http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/31/science/aging.3.190.jpg

    Can we say, "mugging victim" waiting to happen? And what happens when he falls down, or stubs his toe? People forget that bone restructuring requires calories.

    Probably people who are only slightly overweight have less circulating cortisol. Worrying about getting thin is an additional environmental stressor. Seems that people who are just slightly overweight would be less neurotic.