“You are, no doubt, correct, but whatever happened to the studies that say that slightly overweight people live longer than underweight people ?”
We aren’t talking about folks who could lose 10 lbs. We are talking about gigantic folks who could lose 100 lbs. And we as a nation have tons of ‘em. Just go to any Walmart.
I went to Walmart some time ago and I was stunned that I was the thinnest woman in there (and I'm not Kate Moss material by any definition).