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I forget where I heard this, but don't people with thrifty metabolisms

(and therefore lower bf) actually live less long? Have you heard

anything about this?

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> In a message dated 10/11/03 2:22:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> liberty@p... writes:

>

> > I'm not sure that a modern farmer has to work anywhere

> > as hard as a primitive one did, for one thing, and I'm not

> > sure that being fat alone is all that unhealthy, unless the

> > fat is due to insulin resistance, for another.

>

> One of the lifespan studies altered insulin receptors on fat cells,

so that

> high insulin and insulin resistance would be unchanged, but the

insulin would

> not lead to fat storage. The GM mice had longer life span

attributable to

> lower body fat.

>

> Chris