'slightly overweight' good for us' ?

[petefromlondon]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... geing.html

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/P ... laims.aspx

[dailycarbs]

2 points of view below. My opinion? I'll be convinced that being overweight is healthy when cows fly.

Are there health benefits to being overweight?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-th ... 2016-04-28

Looking at weight at a single point in time, like almost all obesity studies do, misses the fact that low weight can be a sign that something is wrong—that is, sometimes people are slim because they have a serious illness such as heart disease or cancer. To epidemiologists, this bias is known as confounding by illness or reverse causality.

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[colonyofcells]

Being slightly overweight might be good if we know that a famine or apocalypse is going to hit this year.