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Dr. Reubin Andres, a gerontologist who advanced the study of diabetes but gained his widest attention for arguing controversially that weight gain in older people increases longevity, died on Sept. 23 at his home in Baltimore. He was 89.
Dr. Andres had been clinical director of the National Institute on Aging since 1977 ? the first to be named to that federal post ? when he began examining weight gain a few years later. He had been asked to address a 1980 conference on obesity and mortality in New York, and not knowing much about the topic, he began investigating the literature.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/health/reubin-andres-an-advocate-of-weight-gain-dies-at-89.html
Dr. Andres had been clinical director of the National Institute on Aging since 1977 ? the first to be named to that federal post ? when he began examining weight gain a few years later. He had been asked to address a 1980 conference on obesity and mortality in New York, and not knowing much about the topic, he began investigating the literature.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/health/reubin-andres-an-advocate-of-weight-gain-dies-at-89.html