Unbelievable
Answer me this:
1. How many adults 60 to 65 years of age do you know who are over 300lbs?
2. How many adults over 70 do you know who are over 250lbs?
3. How many adults over 80 do you know who are over 200 lbs?
4. How many people over the age of 50 who are over 350 lbs do you know?
In short, to say fat people live as long as thin or normal weight people is a lie.
“How many adults over 80 do you know who are over 200 lbs?”
Me. I also have about 10% body fat, however.
Of course, I’ve weight lifted and boxed (now gym only) my entire life.
And my mom is alive and well at 105. Just lost her DL this year. Quite a blow.
Of course you’re going after extreme examples that are NOT what the studies are talking about. Most of the studies are in the 20lb “extra” zone, which really means they’re showing the BMI is full of crap. Of course another part of the problem is that people who fight their weight a lot crash diet a lot, and that is extremely unhealthy, eat too little and your body starts digesting itself which takes years off. The real test of fitness isn’t weight, it’s basic functionality. If you can’t walk a mile without being winded and exhausted you’ve got problems thin or fat. Can you pick up a gallon jug and pour a glass? That’s a big problem for older folks and great reason to keep some level of weight training in your life.
I'm 73, six feet tall and weigh 237 pounds.
Actually, it is not a lie. Its completely the truth. But fat or thin, its not about the weight. It is about the genetics and the life style. Fat people in the US are mostly poor. They are poor because they have bad genes. They are stupid, or violent, or addicted or all three as a result of genetics. They live a reckless lifestyle and come from gene pools where life expectancy is low.
There are as many obese people in California as the entire population of Ohio. Why? Mexicans and blacks. Fat and die young. Hence statistics which are claimed (incorrectly) to show people die from being fat. It is a casual relationship. not a causal one.
“In short, to say fat people live as long as thin or normal weight people is a lie.”
I will disagree with this to a point because I believe appetite greatly decreases with age and by the time we are in our 70s and 80s we often have to be convinced to eat; and when we eat this or that we have this digestive issue or that one; people tend to lose weight once they hit the 60s, 70s, 80s.