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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Woah! Hold on! Where is this research? And why aren't doctors going around telling people to be overweight? Is my doctor a stupid idiot? Actually, you saying that makes ME feel like an idiot for exerting all that effort to lose the weight that I did. Crap.
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Just looking at another resource I have...
I've haven't read these studies myself (maybe one day), but these studies are supposed to support this idea:
The effect of obesity on disability vs mortality in older americans - Archives of Internal Medicine (2007)
Associations between body composition, anthropometry, and mortality in women aged 65 years and older - American Journal of Public Health (2007)
Morbidity and mortality risk associated with an overweight BMI in older men and women - Obesity (2007)
Mortality and cardiac and vascular outcomes in extremely obese women - Journal of the American Medical Association (2006)
Body weight and mortality among men and women in China - Journal of American MEdical Association (2006)
Body mass index and premature mortality in physically heavily working men - a ten year follow up of 20 000 construction workers - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2007)
Body size and mortality in women: a 29 year follow up of 12 000 pregnant women in northern Finland - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1996)
Height and weight and mortality: the Norwegian experience - Acta Medica Scandinavica Supplemantum (1984)
Some are a bit outdated, but the majority are fairly recent.