Fat People Live Longer Dangers of Being Overweight Overstated - "The new analysis found that obesity -- being extremely overweight -- is indisputably lethal. But like several recent smaller studies, it found that people who are modestly overweight actually have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight." This effectively ends my diet. (Let me clarify this. I'm still on a diet that will lower my cholesterol. However, I'm no longer as concerned with lowering my weight. I'm not considered obese, simply overweight. I'm within twelve pounds of being 'normal'.) Perhaps it's time to rethink what is considered to be normal, if overweight people have a lower risk of death. I can't wait for the next exciting report to contradict this one. UPDATE: Here is a NY Times article on the subject: Living Longer Is the Best Revenge. Here's a great quote: "It turns out she doesn't like those body-worshiping, multi-abbed marvels who've spent so much time at the bench press machine they look as if they have thighs growing out of either side of their necks. She doesn't like those health-conscious rice cake addicts you see at Manhattan restaurants ordering a skinned olive for lunch and sitting there looking trim and fit in their tapered blouses while their buns of steel leave permanent dents in the upholstery."