(December 15, 2014 at 10:11 am)Napoléon Wrote: Far more people die every year due to obesity and issues relating directly to being overweight than they do to being underweight. I'd like to see any study that suggests otherwise.
Here's one. Looks like it's healthier in the long run to be a few pounds overweight than underweight. This was a followup to a 2005 study that came to the same findings. Sorry if someone else has already posted this, I haven't read every post in this thread yet.
Being Overweight Is Linked to Lower Risk of Mortality
Quote:Overall, people who were overweight but not obese were 6% less likely to die during the average study period than normal-weight people. That advantage held among both men and women, and did not appear to vary by age, smoking status, or region of the world. The study looked only at how long people lived, however, and not how healthy they were whey the died, or how they rated their quality of life.
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