Comments | drdoug: BMI and mortality

drdoug

BMI and mortality

Oct 02, 2009 14:42

Here's some actual data on BMI and mortality in the UK:

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death-and-taxes

Comments 14

ant_girl October 2 2009, 14:09:17 UTC

Very good. :-)

You're not squirming enough, so: adjectivemarcus October 2 2009, 14:28:09 UTC

Um, wait... what you're saying is that if I get fat enough I'll live forever?

Is that what you're saying? Can I link to this and say that's what you're saying, Doug, can I? (c:

Re: You're not squirming enough, so: drdoug October 2 2009, 14:58:18 UTC

Yes! But only if you get sufficiently fat. If you make it so you are the world's first one-ton per-son, you will live for ever. Or your name, at least. :-)

As referenced in the other thread ciphergoth October 2 2009, 14:30:50 UTC

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Re: As referenced in the other thread drdoug October 2 2009, 14:59:27 UTC

I do love that chart. Excel FTW!

Re: As referenced in the other thread oldbloke October 2 2009, 15:47:22 UTC

Loving that X axis

lovingboth October 2 2009, 15:07:23 UTC

Or, put another way, you've never had it so good.

Someone should use that as a slogan...

vinaigrettegirl October 2 2009, 15:42:05 UTC

Correlation is not causation!

If I were World Dictator, once I'd abolished human trafficking and a few other minor woes, I'd make every journalist, from secondary-school newsmagazines on up, say that three times a day, bowing in the direction of Milton Keynes :-).