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Originally Posted by Itse
Just a few comments:
- Longest living expectations are actually for people in the "slightly overweight" category, which tells you all you need about the labelings of those categories. If you're "slightly overweight", you're actually normal.
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Everything else equal we know the most defining factor for health is wealth. The vast majority of the underweight would be made up of people from poor countries but I would bet a large majority of the upper middle class white collar office workers making their six figures (i.e. Calgarypuck users) would be in the slightly overweight category. So this shouldn't be a surprise at all even before factoring in any typical other "health" metrics.
But also from a completely anecdotal experience based on my own loved ones, it does seems like at a certain age it seems to shift into being beneficial to have a little added cushion. When you start getting to that point where you're significantly more susceptible to cancers and you can see how quickly the treatment and disease can wither people, having that little extra of energy storage might make the difference.