Re: [IP] Fast Food Makes You Fat - Stirring the Pot
In a message dated 4/4/06 3:44:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
email @ redacted writes:
Isn't underweight leading to mortality only relevant if as a result of
malnutrition as in famine or cancer, for example? Being statistically
underweight but not having any underlying disease or life threatening
lifestyle
issue (e.g., poverty, smoking, drug use) is actually associated with greater
longevity and higher quality of life.
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Actually, being slightly overweight is associated with the lowest risk of
morbidity. That's from:
"Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity" by
Katherine M. Flegal, PhD; Barry I. Graubard, PhD; David F. Williamson, PhD;
Mitchell H. Gail, MD, PhD
JAMA. 2005;293:1861-1867.
What this study found is that modestly overweight people had the lowest risk
of death in this study. Results were published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, not a schlock organization.
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