Pearls of wisdom: eat, drink, have sex (using condoms), abstain from smoking and be merry
Open Access
- 1 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 39 (4) , 941-947
Abstract
This issue of the IJE contains two papers, initially published more than a century apart, demonstrating increased mortality amongst thin and fat people, with the lowest mortality amongst the overweight but not obese.1,2 This juxtaposition led me to reflect on the IJE’s commitment to reprinting often obscure historical papers. One other journal, Human Biology under the editorship of its founder, the polymath Raymond Pearl (1879–1940; Figure 1), was as committed to this activity as we are. In 1936, Pearl said:Keywords
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