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[–] Deathstalker 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Your body grows new cells when fed. It repairs old cells during states of caloric restriction. The human life expectancy went up during the great depression because of food shortage. Probably also because people were getting chubby even then.

I posted a video that touched on it not too long ago but it got too many rees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihhj_VSKiTs

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[–] Grave_Mercy 1 point 7 points (+8|-1) ago 

This makes sense, as your cells replicate and die each replication brings the chance of a bad mutation (cancer), fats have significantly higher chances of getting cancer.

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[–] mmmmdonuts 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Hey, that's interesting, never thought of it like that before.