The article seems to mix &quot;thin&quot; and &quot;normal weight&quot; all the time, being just poorly written. Including underweight people and normal people in the &quot;thin&quot; category is a major mistake.<p>Also, this quote is troubling:
&quot;That people at higher weights are going to be OK.&quot;<p>Not only NOTHING in the article supports that, almost every single piece or research shows the opposite: that in general, people at higher weights have much higher mortality rates. The article just shows that, when some chronic diseases are present, overweight people seem to fare better than non-overweight (which I take includes underweight people).<p>Even if they fare better under certain very specific conditions, in general they fare quite worse. Source:
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