Posted on 06/19/2009 10:15:04 AM PDT by 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.
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Not really. The calorie restricted diets used in life extension studies aren’t just like a few calories less than normal.
They’re like way, way, way less than normal.
Simplicity makes the best statement!
Not just that, but people believe that if they don't gain weight, they can eat what they want. My brother is my polar opposite with weight. He eats more junk than should be permitted of a 20-something, but he doesn't gain weight. I don't touch the nasty stuff, eat healthy and well and exercise, and I can't shed the stuff fast enough. Def. speaks to the wonder of the human body. I'd hate to see my brother's cholesterol.
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