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A new study found that healthy older adults who lose a significant amount of weight are more at risk of premature death and “life-limiting conditions,” including cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Probably because weight loss is caused by some life threatening diseases, not the other way around.
That was my take-away when I skimmed this article, not in MSM as posted above, probably Washington Post or CNN.
The study found a correlation of weight loss and earlier death but not that weight loss caused early death. Bad idea if people think losing weight could be life-threatening. I say this as someone who needs to lose 20 lbs but it would be healthy to do that not a danger.
"It is unclear if the participants’ weight loss was intentional or unintentional"...
What on earth was the point of the study, then? But yeah, I would guess a random study of 16,000 people who lost more than 10% without intending to would reveal some pretty serious problems.
I had read ages ago that for older adults having some extra weight, 10-15lbs., was a good idea for just that reason... dealing with an illness and having the extra weight is a bit of a security blanket before weight loss become a real problem.
You have to read toward the bottom where they admit there is no evidence weight loss causes harm or death.
Excerpt:
"The authors noted that the weight loss itself was simply an indicator, not the cause of death, and is a concern due to the possibility of illness or other health conditions."
Indicator. Not cause. So you have a fat cancer patient on chemo who is nauseous and can't hold down food, who loses a lot of weight in the months before dying from cancer.
Then a bot writes this article for click bait. It is bullcrap.
The article grabbed my attention because I'm older and due to quitting smoking I have really packed on the pounds.
I do plan to blast this fat regardless of this implausible study.
It's not that the study is implausible, it's the clickbait headline that implies a non existent cause and effect relationship that's a problem.
It's like saying that ice cream causes sunburn because in summer, ice cream sales AND sunburns both go up.
The cause for both is sun and heat, neither causes the other.
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