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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She may not be Anorexic, but she is more than likely underweight, which is not healthy.
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That's debatable.  Sever studies indicate underweight people live longer than average sized.[/quote]

You have it backwards...most studies show that [b]Overweight[/b] people live longer than  normal people.[/quote]

Naah. Overwhelmingly low caloric intake is associated with longevity. However,  where this gets  messed up is when the person is ill and the nutrition declines- having some weight improves their longevity.[/quote]

Low caloric intake has nothing to do with Overweight/underweight, that is a specialized diet. Get your studies straight and stop twisting the truth because there are people that are &quot;Underweight&quot; that do not follow that diet in anyway whatever.  Link me a study that shows that underweight people live longer, because the most recent research shows that overweight outlive their lighter counterparts.  You can argue that it doesn't make sense till you are blue in the face, but the data is what it is.[/quote]

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not the PP, but here's some interesting info:

link: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=697876

In the United States, the weight associated with the greatest longevity tends to be below the average weight of the population under consideration, if such weights are not associated with a history of significant medical impairment. Overweight persons tend to die sooner than average-weight persons, especially those who are overweight at younger ages. The effect of being overweight on mortality is delayed and may not be seen in short-term studies. Cigarette smoking is a potential confounder of the relationship between obesity and mortality. Studies on body weight, morbidity, and mortality must be interpreted with careful attention to the definitions of obesity or relative weight used, preexisting morbid conditions, the length of follow-up, and confounders in the analysis. The terminology of body weight standards should be defined more precisely and cited appropriately. An appropriate database relating body weight by sex, age, and possibly frame size to morbidity and mortality should be developed to permit the preparation of reference tables for defining the desirable range of body weight based on morbidity and mortality statistics.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=621903

Results:  All-cause mortality was significantly increased in obese men (BMI, ?30 kg/m2; RR, 1.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.1-2.0) and in underweight men (BMI, &lt;18.5 kg/m2; RR, 2.6; 95% CI, 1.8-3.9) but not in women. The increased risk in underweight men could be attributed to deaths within the first 5 years of follow-up and to lung cancer mortality among smokers. Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality was about 3-fold higher among obese men and women. About 21% and 28% of CHD mortality in men and women, respectively, could be attributed to being overweight (BMI, ?25 kg/m2). The RR (but not the absolute risk) for CHD among obese men was still significant after adjustment for the presence of smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes mellitus at baseline, and it was more pronounced for CHD among nonsmokers than among smokers (RR, 7.1; 95% CI, 2.3-21.7; and RR, 2.7; 95% CI, 1.5-4.7, respectively).

Here's another article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016882279090150R
Severely underweight and overweight people do not live longer.[/quote]

Both of the articles you linked are [i]very outdated.[/i]... [b]1984[/b] for the first one?  1996 for the second.  Both outdated and not in alignment with what much more recent research is showing.  The study showing that overweight people live longer was published in something like 2009 I believe (there is a link in this thread somewhere).  We have  come along way in the ~30 years since that 1984 article came out.

I don't think anyone will accept the 1984 article anymore given the new evidence we have today.  And the second article, asides from being 20 years old, is a study on obese people which is clinically different than the "overweight" people we are talking about.[/quote]

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