Love Your Long-Term Studies: Go Call Oprah

"Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longer.

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."

-- AFP

* You mean I got to do this thing for "six to seven years longer"?

That sucks,...