Fat is healthy?

[MacUser]

Fat is healthy? Overweight people have lowest death rate...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/healt ... ref=slogin

About two years ago, a group of federal researchers reported that overweight people have a lower death rate than people who are normal weight, underweight or obese. Now, investigating further, they found out which diseases are more likely to lead to death in each weight group.

Linking, for the first time, causes of death to specific weights, they report that overweight people have a lower death rate because they are much less likely to die from a grab bag of diseases that includes Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, infections and lung disease. And that lower risk is not counteracted by increased risks of dying from any other disease, including cancer, diabetes or heart disease.

As a consequence, the group from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute reports, there were more than 100,000 fewer deaths among the overweight in 2004, the most recent year for which data were available, than would have expected if those people had been of normal weight.

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I've recently slimmed up even more.. I must be knocking on the dangerous side of life!!! Give me the Fried Chicken!

[TW]

I hate to tell them, but the death rate among all weight categories is 100%! Everybody will die at some point. The only meaningful death rate is when it is compared with the birth rate.


TW