Pete C. wrote:

>> One of my grandmother was short and a little on the plump side. She ate
>> all sorts of rich foods. Hell, if there was a little cream left in a
>> pitcher she would drink it rather than put it back in the bottle (in the
>> days when cream came in a bottle). She died a week before her 100th
>> birthday. Her husband was slim and died at 56. My other grandmother was
>> quite plump, and she lived to be 95. My mother had a weight problem and
>> died at 83, while my father, who was slim, died at 77.
>
> Um, you seem to be missing the fact that women generally live longer
> than men.


No. I was thinking more along the line that they were both over their
ideal weights and lived a long time. FWIW, my great grandfather lived
to be over 100.