Being Too Thin Can Be Deadlier Than Being Overweight, Danish Study Reveals
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A Danish study found being too thin can be deadlier than being overweight, sparking debate about the study's methodology and implications.
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This seems like a case study in how to demonstrate that correlation has no discernible relationship whatsoever to causation.