Yeah! Rubenesque is Healthiest
Federal researchers have found that overweight people have the lowest mortality rates of any weight group. Overweight people are defined as having body mass indexes of 25-30. You can calculate yours here.
The researchers went on to discover that obese peple have more deaths from heart disease. And thin people, while dying less from cancer and heart disease, had higher death rates from everything else.
Is Rubenesque making a comeback?
. A third of the American public is hoping the answer is yes. The one third that are the healthiest and a little chubby! Or pick a description: ample, bearish, big, buxom, chunky, fatty, flabby, fleshy, full-figured, hefty, husky, pleasingly plump, plump, plumpish, podgy, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, stout, tubby, zaftig
Of course, you know once we get comfortable with this new rounded condition, there will be more research negating the first!
Gillian Parrillo
SacWomen
Comments
I'm sorry but wtf...what's the source? "Federal researchers" is a bit vague. What ever happened to attribution for storied like this?
Skinny people die from "everything else?" What is that like fire? bears? That guy that lived with the grizzlies was pretty fit...
But seriously though...blogging is journalism whether you like it or not. Act like a journalist and cite your sources please.
Posted by: Ian D. Miller | October 31, 2008 3:46 PM
Mea Culpa
is this good enough for you?
They are the result of analysis of decades of data by federal researchers at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. This is not a study from a fringe group of scientists or sponsored by a fast-food chain.
Posted by: Gillian Parrillo | May 8, 2009 8:41 PM