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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Those "studies" (I wouldn't classify assessment of a life insurance cohort a study) are from 1984, 1996 an 1990. I think the point of the more recent studies is that our understanding of the correlation between mortality and weight has not been accurate -- have you been able to find anything that addresses [i]that[/i]?[/quote]

The age of the study does not invalidate its results. If the experiment is well designed then the results are relevant. What makes a study well designed? Factors like whether it's single variable, uses large sample size, etc

Can you lost the links to the new studies you mention? I'm open minded; I'm not the pp who made the earlier claim. I looked it up as the bickering made me curious. [/quote]

The fact that all the new studies contradict it's results does invalidate its results however....Someone posted it earlier in this thread, or you could probably bring it up pretty quick in google.[/quote]

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