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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Best News EVER!

Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longer.

People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average life expectancy was shorter by some five years than that of obese people, the study found.

"We found skinny people run the highest risk," said Shinichi Kuriyama, an associate professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Medicine who worked on the long-term study of middle-aged and elderly people.

"We had expected thin people would show the shortest life expectancy but didn't expect the difference to be this large," he told AFP by telephone.

Main reasons for the shorter lifespans of skinny people were believed to include their heightened vulnerability to diseases such as pneumonia and the fragility of their blood vessels, he said.

But Kuriyama warned he was not recommending people eat as much as they want. "It's better that thin people try to gain normal weight, but we doubt it's good for people of normal physique to put on more fat," he said.
(Read the entire article here.)

So there! all you ad agencies, magazines, and other media sources trying to tell us that skinny is the only way to be beautiful and healthy. Take THAT!


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3 comments:

Tammy said...

Oh yeah!!

Mesha said...

i don't know that i'd say i'd call it "GOOD" news, i've got really skinny friends...but definately something to shove in the medias faces when they try to shove this "perfect body" image down our throats. :)

Brooke said...

plus skinny and old just looks gross. just ask my 90 pound great aunt (who's 80+ years old!)