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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by perardi on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:15PM (#25887842)
Wow, no, stunningly wrong.

Being underweight is highly correlated with poor health outcomes in seniors. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16886095/) Obesity is obviously bad there, but being underweight is just as dangerous.

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by tw04 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:18PM (#25887864)
"In seniors" would be the key word there. For the average American they'd be far, far better off being slightly underweight than being obese.
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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by perardi on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:21PM (#25887906)
The parent comment was “I fail to see how in any world underweight is worse unless its a baby.”

Pretty decent chunk of the world is seniors these days.

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by coldtea on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:25PM (#25887951)
"is highly correlated". Correlated, not caused by being underweight.

Studies on actual cause has shown the opposite (eating to the point of being underweight raising lifespan).

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