Obesity, underweight both linked to excess deaths

[Guest guest]

Interesting.

" It may be that people who are underweight do not have a lot of

nutritional reserves to call upon when illness does occur. "

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/7615

Aequalsz

[Guest guest]

The blurb I heard on the news is that they included the frail elderly, which

would certainly account for the outcome. OTOH, we do have evidence that

optimal BMI's are between 18 and 21 (see the file " Moderate vs Extreme

CRON " .

on 4/20/2005 9:57 AM, aequalsz at aequalsz@... wrote:

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> Interesting.

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> " It may be that people who are underweight do not have a lot of

> nutritional reserves to call upon when illness does occur. "

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> http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/7615

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> Aequalsz

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