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Old 09-06-2014, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Villages PL View Post
Fred Astaire, as ultra thin as he was, lived to age 88. That's 10 years longer than the average overweight American.

Katharine Hepburn, another thin person, lived to the ripe old age of 96.

Jack LaLanne, who was very fit and lean, lived to age 96.

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But back to the subject, the study was NOT discussing people who are obese. In my opinion, simply put, It was NOT meant to focus on anything but studying people over ninety who were not having dementia and seeing what the commonalities were among the group.

They noted that people seem to do better in their nineties if they were a LITTLE overweight rather than underweight.
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