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TOKYO - Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study has shown that slightly chubby people live longer than those who are very skinny.
People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average life expectancy was shorter by some five years than that of obese people, the study found.
"We found skinny people run the highest risk," said Mr Shinichi Kuriyama, an associate professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Medicine who worked on the long-term study of middle-aged and elderly people.
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The study was conducted by a health ministry team and covered 50,000 people between the ages of 40 and 79 over 12 years in the northern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi.
Main reasons for the shorter lifespans of skinny people were believed to include their heightened vulnerability to diseases such as pneumonia and the fragility of their blood vessels, he said. AFP
From TODAY, World – Weekend, 20/21-Jun-2009; see the source article here.
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