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Really smells like one of those “some alcohol is healthier than none” things where there’s a subset of the otherwise-healthiest group that’s in the otherwise-healthiest group because they’re very sick.
Normal weight and overweight were determined by percentage of population at some point. The boundaries are not about lifespan, they never were.
Why? "Overweight" and "normal weight" weren't determined by reference to what's better.
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