Skinny Kids Live Longer
There’s a more than reasonable weight of science behind the bad things that excess fat cells do to your metabolism - such as act as a source of chronic inflammation, continually generating damage at the cellular and biochemical level that your body cannot repair. That’s not even to talk about what “reduction in physical capacity” and the resultant lack of exercise does for your prospects.
Still working on becoming a skinny kid. Did a solid 20 minutes on the treadmill and it is coming much easier today than it did just last Saturday. Which, according to the Body-for-Life intensity scale means I need to kick things up a notch.