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June 27, 2005

Lean, mean and possibly dead

For the latest in Bleeding Edge's ongoing series of Excuses for Not Dieting, we cross to The Guardian, which informs us that the "healthy overweight" and obese who succeed in losing weight, unfortunately are twice as likely to expire before their alloted span as those who remain slobs.

Nobody quite knows why this is so, but they suggest that it could have something to do with the fact that our bodies are utterly undiscriminating about where they lose the extra kilos. Apparently while one might be overweight, some of one's organs might be perfectly lean. While one's heart, for instance, might tolerate being forcibly shrunk, something else - say, for instance, one's liver or giblets - might get starved to death.

This is not an excuse, by the way, to go out and eat a block of chocolate, because people who added to their normal generous dimensions also were more likely to expire. Better polish off only half a block of chocolate, just to be safe.

Posted by cw at June 27, 2005 03:34 PM

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