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To: jrhana who wrote (251646)	5/25/2008 10:47:06 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793758

The studies don't agree with this: Take out those who are dying with severe eventually fatal diseases, and the statistics will change completely. junkfoodscience.blogspot.com “Both U.S. government and Swedish studies indicate that fatness is not associated with increased doctor visits, medical procedures or hospitalizations...Fat men took no more days of sick leave...and were no more likely to have work-limiting health conditions,” wrote Drs. Paul Ernsberger and Paul Haskew in The Journal of Obesity and Weight Regulations. Among those over age 60, “‘obese’ men and women are no more likely to suffer from chronic diseases than ‘average-weight’” persons.” But they are more likely to survive longer. (Yes, even when researchers have factored for weight loss that could be a symptom of late-stage cancer and other pre-existing illnesses that could make thinner groups appear less healthy.) The Seven Country Study, for example, which has followed 13,000 men over the last 40 years, has found that the risks of dying from cancer and infections decrease with increasing weight. In long-term prospective studies, complications (like retinopathy) and mortality rates from type 2 diabetes are three times lower among heavier people. And people are much more likely to survive a hospitalization if they’re “overweight” than if they’re thin.