[daniel1212]

So if you’re fat (pardon me), if you have ‘excessive weight’... Then your risk of dying is greater. Hmm... Well... Doh!!! on that. Restating the obvious over and over again, doesn’t make it new. Fat people live shorter lives... One thing that you rarely see is overweight people in their 80s and 90s.

Yet there are headlines such as The Healthiest Weight Could Actually Be 'Overweight. A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index (or BMI) were more likely to live longer than those in the 'healthy', 'underweight', and 'obese' - https://www.sciencealert.com/the-healthiest-weight-could-actually-be-overweight-huge-study-finds

Which is what the article here attacks.

[metmom]

Being a little above average in weight gives you a little safety net should you end up in an acute situation where you can’t eat much for a few days.