Dieting Kills

The Guardian has a report up today about a study carried out in Finland among the overweight and the obese which argues that dieting may actually weaken your body and cause you to die early anyway. Couple this with an article they had in the Weekend magazine a couple of weeks ago about how the young of today are so overweight they're going to die before their parents, and you're left with quite a morbid picture growing.

Which inspires the inner worrymonger inside my mind to scream "oh god Oh God OH GOD" over and over again. My current BMI is about 29, which is technically borderline obese, but four years ago it was about 38. Normally this would be a cause for celebration and congratulatory "you're on the right track!" messages from friends and co-workers, but now i'm being forced to spend the afternoon searching for ways to check if my lean organs have enough fat on them.

But, what I really want to do is eat a nice big comfort cake. With ice cream and strawberry syrup. Only stuff like that causes you to gain weight. Which will mean you'll die of heart disease or something nasty like that. But now, if I don't have one, my lean organs will pack up.

I suppose the mother nature's message is that you're damned eitherway.