Overweight Baby Boomers may die prematurely

A new study contradicts a previous one that said that being "a little bit" overweight might be a good thing. A study of a half million AARP members (age 50+) conducted by the National Cancer Institute indicates that "those who were somewhat overweight had a mild, 20 percent to 40 percent increased risk of dying prematurely compared with people of normal weight."

This contradicts a recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control which said that showed that while being grossly overweight can be deadly, being moderately overweight was no indicator of premature death.

The new study was based on a larger population, and corrected sampling errors critics of the CDC study said were inherent in the government study. The CDC refuses to comment on non-CDC studies.

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