Re: OT: and the fat shall inherit the earth ;-)

On Nov 7, 11:45 am, Ken Dixon <nsvmi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I love when studies like this come out ;-)

NYT
November 7, 2007
Causes of Death Are Linked to a Person's Weight
By GINA KOLATA

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.

Their paper is published today in the Journal of the American Medical
Association.

for the rest gohttp://preview.tinyurl.com/38t5ue


What does any of that have to do with cigars?

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  • OT: and the fat shall inherit the earth ;-)
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