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April 21, 2005

You CAN be too thin, after all

It looks like being fashionably thin, can kill you. It's far healthier, it seems, to be a little overweight. In fact, according to a study by statisticians and epidemiologists from the National Cancer Institute and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, printed in the New York Times, even if your weight is normal, you may be at greater risk of death than someone carrying a few extra kilos.

The study, acclaimed as the most rigorous yet on the effects of weight, controlled for factors like smoking, age, race and alcohol consumption, shows that only the very obese - just 8 per cent of the US population - are at greater risk of death from their weight.

We expect the findings will be challenged by the diet industry. And all those women's magazines.

Posted by cw at April 21, 2005 05:09 PM

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Posted by: Calamanthus at April 22, 2005 04:04 PM