Study finds overweight older people live longer. Really?
From this WebMD article Overweight Older People Live Longer:
“People who carry a few extra pounds after age 70 tend to live longer than people who don’t, new research finds.
BMI
Body Mass Index is Bogus
From this NPR article Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus, the top ten are:
1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be 
used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual.
2. It is scientifically nonsensical.
Overweight people live longer?
From this US News article A Few Extra Pounds Might Bring Extra Years:
75 Percent of U.S. Adults Will Be Overweight by 2015, Study Says
From this article, 75 Percent of U.S. Adults Will Be Overweight by 2015, Study Says:
"The waistlines of Americans continue to grow and a new study estimates that by 2015, 75 percent of adults will be overweight and 41 percent will be obese".
"The percentage of adults in the U.S. that were obese increased from 13 percent in the 1960s to 32 percent in 2004".
