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Originally Posted by graciegirl
The point I got after reading the article is that you can be a little overweight, not obese, and if you exercise a lot, you will live longer than a very thin person who exercises.
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I read the column over quickly and couldn't find the comparison that you mentioned above. What I found was: (In my own words)
Overweight exercisers are healthier than thin people who are sedentary. That's another reason I find fault with the column. He never states the ideal. He doesn't compare thin exercisers with overweight exercisers. And he doesn't compare good nutrition with poor nutrition. I believe thin pleople who eat a totally healthy diet (no processed foods and no empty calories) and exercise (to maintain good muscle tone and good percentage of body fat) represent the ideal.
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This was a reappraisal of 97 studies with 2.88 million people.
And that is what the computer said.
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If the study is meaningless, no amount of reappraised studies will change anything. And the computer is only as good as those who design the study; garbage in, garbage out.