Dubai – Masaader News
A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an ‘overweight’ body mass index (or BMI) were more likely to live longer than those in the ‘healthy’, ‘underweight’, and ‘obese’ categories. According to “Science Alert”.
These results are definitely not an excuse to cancel your gym membership and have ice cream for breakfast. No one’s arguing that forgoing exercise and eating crap is your best shot at living a long, happy life.
The study, led by clinical biochemist Børge Nordestgaard from Copenhagen University Hospital, analysed the medical data of more than 100,000 adults in Denmark, recruited in three groups about 15 years apart.
They found that during the four decades of analysis – from 1976 to 2013 – the BMI associated with lowest risk of death increased from 23.7 to 27.
The study also found that those in the ‘obese’ category ended up having the same risk of death as those in the ‘normal’ range, even when factors such as age, sex, family history of disease, socio-economic status, and smoking were taken into account.