connecting two dots obesity = reduced Life expectancy?

[Guest guest]

While life expectancy is surely complex and influenced by numerous

factors two recent studies strike me as perhaps worth looking into.

MS where I currently reside was near the bottom of the list for life

expectancy while simultaneously at the top of the list for being the

most obese state. It is not exactly newsworthy that being obese is

unhealthy but considering these two data points together suggests a

possible association between obesity and lower life expectancy.

Of course there are other factors like income or education level that

may also correlate and I only recall my current state rankings which

are not high in those other metrics either. Studying the impact of

obesity doesn't tell us much about CR, but I wonder what comparing

the life expectancy data to regional BMI info might reveal? While I

grew up in Bergen County NJ years ago I don't recall any oriental

women, slender or heavy. The geographic association may be a " where

they are living now " rather than " where they have lived " . I suspect

lifestyle, behavior, and perhaps things like access to quality

medical care could trump the physical aspects of geography.

JR