“Longevity: Tales from the Oldest Old” Presented by Claudia H. Kawas, M.D.

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Doesn't it strike you as interesting that we obsess so much about calories and micro-nutrients and what we consume and yet this study finds: People who drank moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee lived longer than those who abstained. People who were overweight in their 70s lived longer than normal or underweight people did. Maybe if we stressed less about our diet and weight, that would help.

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Cari Corbet-Owen She did say only if you’re overweight in later life, not when you were young. Being overweight when you were young is still shown to correlate with shorter life expectancy.