Assumption: “Overweight” and “obese” people die sooner than leaner people.    False! Almost all epidemiologic studies indicate people in the overweight or moderately obese categories live at least as long—or longer—than people in the normal weight category. The most comprehensive review of the research pooled data from 26 studies and found overweight to be associated with greater longevity than normal weight.3 But the book has these words in it so this must be true. Doctors must have been lying to us all this time or they never received any kind of real medical training./s This just blows me away that anyone would buy this tripe and dumbfounded by some of the reviews on Amazon that there are people buying it. Stupid autho  60d7  r want to cash in on the fat cows.