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Fat People Live Longer? (Japanese study)

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Fat People Live Longer? (Japanese study)

Postby IkemenTommy » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:39 pm

[floatl]Image[/floatl]Chubby people live longest: Japan study

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.

The study was conducted by a health ministry team led by Tohoku University professor Ichiro Tsuji and covered 50,000 people between the ages of 40 and 79 over 12 years in the northern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi.

"There had been an argument that thin people's lives are short because many of them are sick or smoke. But the difference was almost unchanged even when we eliminated these factors," Kuriyama said.

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. more...


Before anyone goes out on a binge eating spree at your local all-you-can-eat buffet, you should realize that the title of this article is slightly misleading, as there is no conclusive evidence that obesity leads to a longer life. Though on the other extreme end, we all can agree that being skinny is just as unhealthy, if not worse.
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Postby Midwinter » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:38 pm

As a fat bastard, I'm pretty confident I'm going to live longer than any skinny person because if push comes to shove and there's a famine, I'll be skinning you for lunch long before you've even considered what's on the lunch menu.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:44 pm

Mike's a big fan of Mid's lifestyle! :grin:
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Postby xenomorph42 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:33 pm

Midwinter wrote:As a fat bastard, I'm pretty confident I'm going to live longer than any skinny person because if push comes to shove and there's a famine, I'll be skinning you for lunch long before you've even considered what's on the lunch menu.



Yea, but imagine how much longer you can live if you cut down on eating read meat and curb smoking. Even with a famine, you'll be waaay ahead of the game. IMHO :mrgreen:
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Postby maraboutslim » Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:40 pm

How come when I click on "more", the story I get differs from what is quoted above?

The problem is that to most English speakers, especially Americans, they don't understand what those BMI numbers look like on real people. Because the majority of people are so damn fat, they have a skewed view of what people in each BMI category really look like. They'd view a person like myself as being the skinny person who will die sooner and view themselves as a chubby who will live longer but in reality they are obese and I am normal (6'0" 70 kg).
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Postby Gilligan » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:13 pm

maraboutslim wrote:How come when I click on "more", the story I get differs from what is quoted above?

The problem is that to most English speakers, especially Americans, they don't understand what those BMI numbers look like on real people. Because the majority of people are so damn fat, they have a skewed view of what people in each BMI category really look like. They'd view a person like myself as being the skinny person who will die sooner and view themselves as a chubby who will live longer but in reality they are obese and I am normal (6'0" 70 kg).


Quite the braod sweeping generalization there about those hypothetical people. But anyone the same height as you weighing between 84 kgs. and 100 kgs. would qualify as being in the slightly overweight category discussed in the article (25-30 BMI), i.e., "the chubby people who will live longer" than the skinny people (your hieght and less than 62 kgs.).
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Postby maraboutslim » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:47 am

Gilligan wrote:Quite the braod sweeping generalization there about those hypothetical people. But anyone the same height as you weighing between 84 kgs. and 100 kgs. would qualify as being in the slightly overweight category discussed in the article (25-30 BMI), i.e., "the chubby people who will live longer" than the skinny people (your hieght and less than 62 kgs.).


My point was that many people have a distorted body image and view themselves to be "slightly overweight" even when they are in the "obese" category. They therefore view "normal" people like me as being in the "skinny" category.

Average male weight in the usa is now over 200 and female is 160(!!!!). These people look around and think they are normal, but they are basically obese (unless they are much taller than average).
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