"Overweight" people live the longest!

wakka12 wrote: »

If you're healthy youll generally live considerably longer than somebody who lived an unhealthy life, thats the reality

Never seen that as reflected in reality. I know some people who have been sickly all their lives and live to 90, people (the neighbour) who smoked 40 woodbines every day and finally keeled over just shy of 85, the massive chubby lad who defies all normal mortality rules and soldiers on, on a diet of fries and pints, well into their 70's, and the fitness fanatic who carks it at 40 while out jogging.

I've an older mate who, for as long as I have known him, has been a raging alcoholic while smoking about 60 Marlboro a day. He downs a bottle of jack and a bottle of wine for the evenings, every day. The fecker refuses to die. In fact, he appears hugely hale and hearty. My own Da was the same age as him, never smoked, never drank and keeled over 10 years ago. "He who refuses to die" is still going strong today. That one amazes me tbh.. The chap who comes in to cut our hedges had a stroke last year, at the grand old age of 76. So far so ordinary, but the fcuker puts away c.a 20, yes 20 pints of beer most weekend nights. "Oh he does yeah!" I hear the cries. He does tho. I dread meeting him if I'm out because he'd have me paralytic after 5 and he'd only be getting started. 5 or 6 to him is "popping in for a beer on the way home". And he's far from alone.

My best mates Mum just got out of Hospital having been brought in as "at the end.." -she's over 90, I'm not sure exactly. The woman lives on cigarettes and gin. I've never seen her without a cigarette in her hand... and she's back home, moaning about how she couldn't smoke in the Hospital..

The kicker is this - My Mams a life-long chubber. She was never what you'd call "swelft". Always a "sturdy burd" weight wise. She's 81 this year. Since about 75, the weight has been falling off her. She is now officially "skinny". She's still going like a train. Maybe all them "skinny" oldies weren't always that way? Maybe when you hit 75, you start burning fat reserves to make it into your eighties. Blubber up, suckers. If you didn't stockpile it, you're not gonna get to burn it.