Chubby people live longest: Japan study

breitbart ^ | 6/19/09 | ap

[Nachum]

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.

[Nachum]

Huh. My BMI is just about 23. Guess I'll go eat some Chili Fries...

[kittymyrib]

Jenny Craig will be sorry to hear this.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

funny you should post this...I mentioned earlier in another post that low thyroid activity (which can explain chubbiness) is thought to extend life. Lower one’s metabolism = longer life. Thinner people tend to have high metabolic rates which might equate to shorter life. Animals with high metabolic rates tend to live shorter lives unlike animals with low metabolic rates.

[Seruzawa]

Wow! Then I should live forever. Pass me some more nachos, Marsha!

[GOP Poet]

This completely contradicts the low daily calorie a day consumption and a longer life data. I am going to have to go with this chubby is best study :-D.

[my small voice]

I might be immortal!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

As the wag said: Warning living is hazardous to your health.”

[TheWasteLand]

I’ve often observed that elderly folks who have good appetites and eat quite a bit (and consequently are a little “chubby”) often seem to be healthier and more vital than skinny elderly folks who eat little.

[Teflonic]

Wow, first I find that smoking is good for me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274891/posts and now this?

[HerrBlucher]

A little chubby maybe, but lardbutts no. Also, what good is living if you can’t get it up, or do other things you want because you are too freakin heavy?

Skinny is for the birds though.

[Jagman]

Paid for by a Chub from the Grant Group!

[a fool in paradise]

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.

When you get cancer and start to waste away, sometimes it may be better to have something that you CAN afford to lose.

[Revolting cat!]

[mysterio]

Lab studies show that mammals that get a reduced calorie diet actually live about 30 percent longer. So I doubt being heavy is going to help out very many people.

I worked hard to get down to a 23 BMI from one in the mid 30s. No way am I going to let myself get overweight again.

[Mugwump]

Eat healthy

Stay Fit

Die Anyway...

[a fool in paradise]

Did somebody say "LUNCH"?

[a fool in paradise]

It works!

[Daffynition]

The baseline?.............

[Bon mots]

Maybe so if you get chubby from eating lots of raw fish and seafood high in Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids.

Fat people in the states get fat from donuts and crap, not from sushi, sashimi and fish cakes.

[nightlight7]

Considering our current obesity mass hysteria, one would think that such research would be done in USA, yet we had to wait for Japanese scientist to check the obvious matters first. Any phenomenon going against the prevailing dogma in a given environment becomes invisible to the science or mass media in that environment. US scientists or journals or news media, simply don't see things that ought not to be according to laws du jour in their virtual reality. 'Chubby is good for you' doesn't exist in US matrix.

What is even more interesting is how little attention this story, which is great news in fact, has got so far -- only 5 news stories on Google news. It makes it quite obvious which way propaganda winds are blowing here.