(December 15, 2014 at 12:42 pm)Napoléon Wrote: The best argument I could see being made from this, is that skinny people can be just as unhealthy as overweight people.
No, those studies discovered that all other common morbidity factors normalized for, slightly overweight people lived longer than "normal" people as well. They didn't look into anything related to underweight people.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal