Fitness, not fat, determines life expectancy - The Telegraph 5th December 2007

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

It is not how much fat you carry but how fit you feel that has most influence on how long you will live. The discovery that elderly people who are both fit and obese suffer half the death rate of unfit people who are of normal weight, or who are even lean, comes only a few weeks after another American study caused consternation among public health professionals by suggesting that being overweight - though not too flabby - might actually be beneficial for health.

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