According to a new study, Japanese may build some self-esteem for overweight people concerned for their health. Despite all the health expert warnings of the risk of obesity, a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longer.
The study was conducted by a health ministry team led by Tohoku University professor Ichiro Tsuji and covered 50,000 people between the ages of 40 and 79 over 12 years in the northern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi.
The study found that 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 main reasons for the shorter lifespan of skinny people were believed to include their heightened vulnerability to diseases such as pneumonia and the fragility of their blood vessels.
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