Get Fat to Get Fit Scientists Belatedly Tell Us

[cactusflower]

After all the years of semistarvation, personal trainers, aerobics, hip, thigh, face, ass diets and giving up chocolate (for lent), we are now told by the bloody scientists that we are better off "overweight"


A few extra pounds can add years to your life: study | U.S. | Reuters

The study was based on examining the relationship between body mass index and death among 11,326 adults in Canada over a 12-year period using data from the National Population Health Survey.

During the study period, from 1994/1995 through 2006/2007, underweight people were 70 percent more likely than people of normal weight to die, and extremely obese people were 36 percent more likely to die.

But overweight individuals were 17 percent less likely to die. The relative risk for obese people was nearly the same as for people of normal weight.

The researchers said this was the first large Canadian study to show that people who are overweight may actually live longer than those of normal weight. An earlier study, conducted in the United States and published in 2005 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed similar results.

[PhoenixIreland]

Thanks but I'll take by chances with my 6 pack.

[spidermom]

Thanks but I'll take by chances with my 6 pack.

Not me...YIPPEEE...wheres that chocolate........!!!!!

[Trefor1.1]

Perhaps many of the 'underweight' were cancer patients & the like.

[PhoenixIreland]

Not me...YIPPEEE...wheres that chocolate........!!!!!

Oh you! You just want an excuse to eat the chocolate!



Husband: "honey...your carrying a little extra weight these days maybe you should lay off all that chocolate in front of eastenders at night"

Spidermom: "No no! It's ok honey! there was this study! I'm even gonna live longer than you!"

[Edo]

Meh - It has also been statistically proven that celibate people live longer than those who get it 3 times a week - wheres the fun in that.

Lets be honest here - unless you are morbidly obese and your doc has said lose weight or die - you dont bother slimming down and getting fit to save your life - you do it to get laid and pass on the genes!

[121.5]

who funded this study?

Harney?

[cactusflower]

Perhaps many of the 'underweight' were cancer patients & the like.

Don't rain on our parade Trefor. Spidermom and I were just hitting the chocolate.

That had crossed my mind too: I'd say they factored that in.

[spidermom]

Oh you! You just want an excuse to eat the chocolate!



Husband: "honey...your carrying a little extra weight these days maybe you should lay off all that chocolate in front of eastenders at night"

Spidermom: "No no! It's ok honey! there was this study! I'm even gonna live longer than you!"

OR.....Honey...you carrying a little extra weight etc.....


Spidermom......its a small comfort being with some fecking eejit who thinks that he looks good in that fe*king monstrosity of a fruit bowl on yer head....Should have listened to me mother!!!!!

[cactusflower]

Meh - It has also been statistically proven that celibate people live longer than those who get it 3 times a week - wheres the fun in that.

Lets be honest here - unless you are morbidly obese and your doc has said lose weight or die - you dont bother slimming down and getting fit to save your life - you do it to get laid and pass on the genes!

I think you must have misread that Edo - it seems that randy plump vegetarians live longest


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