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On the contrary. Conditional on living to your 60s, being moderately overweight is positively correlated with lifespan, not negatively.

When you're old, setbacks that cause you to lose your appetite are much more common and much bigger threats to the health of skinny people.

I don't know where you live, but I've met tons of moderately fat people in their 70s and 80s.



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