Coffee-achivin' boozin' fatties, rejoice!
According to researchers at the University of California's Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND), the secret to living an ultra-long and prosperous life, a.k.a. making it past your 90th birthday, is actually quite surprising.
The secret? Being overweight in your 70s, and drinking both alcohol and coffee...in moderate amounts.
The researchers explained: “People who drank moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee lived longer than those who abstained,” and that “people who were overweight in their 70s lived longer than normal or underweight people did.”
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 22, 2019 10:22 PM
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Pardon me, but I'll take the chance that research is flawed.
I don't buy it
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 22, 2019 10:16 PM
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The extra weight is hell on your joints, so if you do live longer it's more painful years. No thanks.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 22, 2019 10:20 PM
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I think the “overweight in their 70s” thing is that if you do get sick in your old age, your body has some store of energy. I had an elderly friend who said that when she was too thin, she felt vulnerable and her nerves felt they were lacking a cushion. ??? A neighbor down the hall was always a little on the butterball side, and she’s been having some stomach issues (she doesn’t really divulge the details), and she’s lost an alarming amount of weight. She looks sickly and weak. I don’t think *obesity* helps anything, but maybe a few extra pounds are okay.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 22, 2019 10:21 PM
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It prbably has a lot to do with happiness. Abstaining from alcohol and coffee and food as a health choice probably makes people miserable.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 22, 2019 10:22 PM
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