http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/health/20fat.html
Some Extra Heft May Be Helpful, New Study Says
By GINA KOLATA
Published: April 20, 2005
"People who are overweight but not obese have a lower risk of death
than those of normal weight, federal researchers are reporting today.
The researchers - statisticians and epidemiologists from the National
Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -
also found that increased risk of death from obesity was seen for the
most part in the extremely obese, a group constituting only 8 percent
of Americans.
And being very thin, even though the thinness was longstanding and
unlikely to stem from disease, caused a slight increase in the risk of
death, the researchers said."
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