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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: 240 is Back on March 27, 2014, 05:29:33 PM
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A new study from Australia finds that people aged 65 and over with a body mass index in the overweight range live longer and suggests perhaps the World Health Organization guidelines on BMI may not be suitable for older people.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines overweight as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 25, and a BMI of 30 or over as obese. BMI is equal to a person's weight in kilos divided by the square of their height in meters (kg/m2).
Caryl Nowson, professor of nutrition and aging at Deakin University in Melbourne, and colleagues looked at links BMI and risk of death in people aged 65 and over, and found those with the lowest risk of death had a BMI of around 27.5.
They also found those with a BMI between 22 and 23 - considered to be the normal weight range - had a significantly higher risk of death.
They say their findings, which they report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, question whether the WHO guidelines are suitable for older adults. Prof. Nowson suggests it is time to reassess them, and adds:
"Our results showed that those over the age of 65 with a BMI of between 23 and 33 lived longer, indicating that the ideal body weight for older people is significantly higher than the recommended 18.5-25 'normal' healthy weight range."
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Mainstream medicine is never wrong....
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"lowest risk of death" lol
I'm pretty sure all humans have the same risk of death
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"lowest risk of death" lol
I'm pretty sure all humans have the same risk of death
100% baby
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100% baby
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Is it fat mass or muscle mass?
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Safety Fat
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Fat Panda will have the last laugh.
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Could it be enough to strap weights on older people to make them live longer? Would it benefice?
I would consider doing it once 65, if I have failed to become overweight naturally.
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The evidence mounts! Fat is healthy!!!!!!!!!
Underweight Even Deadlier Than Overweight, Study Says
FRIDAY, March 28, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- It's said you can never be too rich or too thin, but new research suggests otherwise. People who are clinically underweight face an even higher risk for dying than obese individuals, the study shows.
Compared to normal-weight folks, the excessively thin have nearly twice the risk of death, researchers concluded after reviewing more than 50 prior studies.
Obesity has occupied center stage under the public health spotlight, but "we have [an] obligation to ensure that we avoid creating an epidemic of underweight adults and fetuses who are otherwise at the correct weight," said study leader Dr. Joel Ray, a physician-researcher at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
The findings appear in the March 28 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health.
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Studies included in the analysis followed people for five years or more and focused on associations between BMI (body-mass index, a key indicator of healthy weight) and fatalities related to any cause.
Ray's team also looked at how death rates related to weight patterns among newborns and stillborns.
Underweight patients of all ages (those with a BMI of 18.5 or under) were found to face a 1.8 times greater risk for dying than patients with a normal BMI (between 18.5 and 25.9), the study found.
By contrast, obese patients (those with a BMI between 30 and 34.9) face a 1.2 greater risk for dying than normal-size patients. Severely obese patients -- those with a BMI of 35 or more -- faced a 1.3 times greater risk.
Ray said it's important to keep a healthy body size in mind when attempting to tackle the obesity epidemic.
"BMI reflects not only body fat, but also muscle mass. If we want to continue to use BMI in health care and public health initiatives, we must realize that a robust and healthy individual is someone who has a reasonable amount of body fat and also sufficient bone and muscle," Ray said in a hospital news release. "If our focus is more on the ills of excess body fat, then we need to replace BMI with a proper measure, like waist circumference."
Typical factors linked to a higher risk for being underweight included malnourishment, drug or alcohol use, smoking, poverty and mental health issues.
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Old news. Champions Falcon has been educating us on the benefits of higher body fat stores for a couple of years now.
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some make it out alive
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Bmi between 25-30 aint really fat. Especially an older person with a Bmi of 28 compared to 20 will look much more healthy. Those skinny old People look like concentration camp prisoners. Better to sport healthy SS guard looks.
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Fat Panda will have the last laugh.
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