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Yeah, big news. Fat people die younger and have more health problems. Gee, who would have guessed that?

That's "Obese people who don't get sufficient physical exercise die younger and have more health problems." Physically active obese males have lower risk for death due to heart disease than physically inactive lean males. And this holds true even for those physically active obese males with risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. The link between obesity and asthma is likely to be a too clean house in which children would rather sit on their increasingly obese asses playing video games and watching TV than going outdoors and engaging in physical activity and giving their immune systems a healthy challenge while they're at it.

All good observations, but you're forgetting one thing; namely that just as our masters have redifined everything else, they've redifined obesity so that now an epidemic can be claimed.

Back when I was in high school Saint Jack the Dead was proclaiming an obeisity crisis and going on about 50 mile walks. There even used to be bureaucratic show walks.

The more things change...

OK, I guess the term "fat" is a bit subjective. If you're a few extra pounds but it doesn't slow you down in the least, then you're doing good.

And I know exactly what you mean about the really lean men that aren't very active. I know the type. Usually they smoke alot of cigarettes and drink alot of coffee. I think the cigarettes and the coffee have an effect on their weight and that's why they are so thin. One of my grandfathers was just like that, and he dropped dead from a heart attack before age 65. A good freind's dad was just like that too, and he dropped dead from a heart attack at age 49.

Tall, thin as a rail, dark complected, big hands and wide bony shoulders, big adams apple, leathery skin, chain smoker, guzzles coffee by the gallons...talks real slow in a deep voice, always wears a hat, and never moves fast. Kinda reminds you of a cowboy out of an old norman rockwell painting. That type always seems to die young.