[extropy-chat] Overweight people live longer

[Mike Lorrey]

Actually, studies of limited numbers of people engaged in CR plans are
shown to live longer, but we have no idea of how participants are
self-selected or filtered out from participation. The study Hal
references looks at everybody. There have been a number of other
studies showing that the slightly overweight live longest.

--- Reason <reason at longevitymeme.org> wrote:
> I should point out that there are any number of good studies
> demonstrating
> exactly the opposite. One can't draw conclusions based on any one
> study in
> this field.
> 
> Reason
> Founder, Longevity Meme
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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