From: Bill Lucy 

In article , gauszka{at}hotmail.com says...

> Obesity could help keep Social Security solvent because people will die
> younger. "One of the consequences of our prediction is that Social Security
> does not appear to be in nearly as bad a shape as we think," said study
> author S. Jay Olshansky.
>
> University of Illinois at Chicago researchers Wednesday reported the rise in
> obesity will result in a drop in life expectancy.
>
> Professor S. Jay Olshansky's team, writing in the March 17 issue of the New
> England Journal of Medicine, said obesity currently reduces life expectancy
> by four to nine months.

Just as an aside, when my son Jay worked at UIC, he worked for Olshansky.
He is one of the reasons Jay is working for the University of Chicago these
days.

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