A recent study showed that being "overweight" can be good for you (Study: Overweight People Live Longer):
There is more evidence that people who are overweight tend to live longer than people who are underweight, normal weight, or obese. In a newly published study, people who were underweight and those who were extremely obese died the earliest.
People who were overweight, but not obese, actually lived longer than people whose weight was considered normal, based on body mass index (BMI).
This seems counter-intuitive because we are always told that we should be losing weight. But wait – monkeys who are given 30% less food appear to stay healthier and live longer .
Over 20 years, monkeys whose diets were not restricted were nearly three times more likely to have died than those whose calories were counted.
Writing in Science, the US researchers hailed the "major effect" of the diet.
It involved reducing calorie intake by 30% while maintaining nutrition and appeared to impact upon many forms of age-related disease seen in monkeys, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and brain atrophy.
It seems as if there is a study somewhere out there that will support almost any theory.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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