Well, considering that higher weight is correlated with LOWER morbidity in older people, I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing. You noticed how the article barely touched on that and explicitly glossed over it.

Sure, we still have to deal with all the cultural messages about not being thin at the same time that we're learning to deal with the cultural messages about not being young. I'm not saying it isn't an emotional struggle, because it is a huge one. But I think people do a lot of physical harm to themselves fighting what their bodies want to do.