News out of the journal Obesity (I buy it for the photos), shows that being moderately overweight actually improves your odds of not dying early.
Compared with people in the “normal” range of the BMI — the misused and misguided body mass index, which charts your height and weight and determines if you are “normal”, overweight or underweight — people who were moderately overweight were 17 percent less likely to die than people in the normal range.
This is really more of a condemnation of the BMI than it is anything else. One of the study’s primary authors and a researcher at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Oregon, David Feeny, said: “I think this is part of an accumulation of evidence that indicates that organizations like Health Canada… should rethink the evidence on their classification of BMI categories.”
According to the Globe and Mail:
Feeny speculates that overweight people might survive longer because their extra heft gives them more resilience when they become old or ill. Since people lose fat faster than muscle, having that bit of extra weight might help in preventing frailty.
No word yet on how much beer you have to drink to live longer. But… fingers crossed!
Well, I have to be honest: the altruistic thing didn’t work out too well. Of all the submissions to this edition of the Carnival of Satire, only two followed the new guidelines. Perhaps they are just too complicated, and I need to rephrase them: submit the best satire of the month written by someone who is not you, and give me the link to that. That said, I’ve plunged ahead and found some worthy posts for you to peruse, but we’ll start with the submissions:
Nick over at 
Research scientists from NaziWorks 3000 (The Caring Company) were thrilled to finally track down the source of the mysterious transmissions they had been receiving for centuries, proving once and for all the existence of non-human non-robotic sources of intelligence in the multi-verse.