Wait, so being fat won't make me live longer?

Put down the Krispy Creme and the venti, with whip, two pump, caramel mocha mint brownie Frappuccino. Criticisms are emerging of a study conducted last month by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute, which claimed that individuals who were overweight, but not obese, have a lower death risk than those who are normal or underweight. The counter-intuitive findings in the study have come under attack from the Harvard School of Public Health and the American Cancer Society who have dubbed it's methods "deeply flawed." As the research methods of the study are torn to shreds, the CDC is toning down the "its okay to be chunky" rhetoric and NY Times columnist David Brooks may want to rethink his assertion "that Mother Nature - unlike Ivy League admissions committees - doesn't like suck-ups."

It seems that the honeymoon may be over for the folks searching for a few extra years of life at the bottom of a bucket of KFC, but come on now, you already knew that the study was too good to be true and Richard Simmons wouldn't sweat to the oldies without purpose.