I am, however, confining my remarks to those to whom allusion is made in your editorial ''concerning corpulence" who will be overweights of about 40 years of age and upwards. It reference to these the following extracts from the Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Ca. must be accepted as a statement of fully established facts: ''Overweight is a serious impairment among insured lives, the gravity increasing with the excess in weight over the average for the height and age. It is after the age 35 that overweight, even in relatively small amounts begins to be dangerous. The seriousness increases with advancing age and with the amount of overweight,
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