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Your overall mortality is actually best when you are overweight but not obese. Life expectancy at overweight bmi > standard bmi > obese bmi > underweight bmi.
by cm2012 1y ago
Your overall mortality is actually best when you are overweight but not obese.
Life expectancy at overweight bmi > standard bmi > obese bmi > underweight bmi.
A few extra pounds when you are older helps you survive illness.
The data is really really clear and replicated on this.
- derektank 1y agoThis only really holds for older people, who have basically no ability to recover lost muscle mass after a serious illness which makes it difficult them to continue to exercise.
- nahikoa 1y agoThe correlation is unambigous. The causation is a different story, e.g. illnesses often cause weight loss.
- standardUser 1y agoWhich segments of these populations have high BMI because of muscle mass instead of excess body fat? Which segments have low BMI due to childhood malnourishment or current or chronic illness? These are just some of the very obvious questions that have already been used to relegate your conveniently concise "fact" to "interesting, but not instructive".
- Aurornis 1y ago> A few extra pounds when you are older helps you survive illness. This doesn’t mean being slightly overweight from age 20 through 60 is an advantage.