Mark Twain's "Smoking is Good for You" , and "Being Fat Can SaveYour Life"
 

Mark Twain is said to have told the following story about a pair of twins.
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There were twin boys, now mature, who were exactly alike except in the
areas of smoking, drinking, running around with wild women and staying
up all night playing cards. Brother Albert abstained from these evils,
and brother Bart had these habits.

Albert and Bart were both struck with some mysterious deadly illness and
lay near death in adjoining rooms.

They had the same doctor and after careful examinations, he gave them
both the same advice to avoid death.

The primary advice was to :
1) Quit Smoking
2) Quit Drinking
3) Stop all night partying.

Bart gave up all of these things and lived.

Albert, the clean living twin, didn't have any evils to forgoe, and he
died, of course.

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Now you can understand this brief press release on how BEING FAT CAN
SAVE YOUR LIFE :-)

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/...to-be-fat.html


It's not so bad to be fat

* 10:00 20 January 2007
* From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.


Obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, but if your heart is already
failing, being fat could save your life.

Gregg Fonarow of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his
colleagues looked at the records of more than 100,000 patients
hospitalised because their heart failure was worsening. They found that
the fatter the person, the less likely they were to die during a
week-long hospital stay (American Heart Journal, vol 153, p 74).

Fonarow suggests that fat people may cope better with heart failure
because they have more metabolic reserves to draw on when the heart
isn't pumping blood fast enough to meet the body's needs.