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Friday, March 27, 2009

Carrying Extra Weight Can Shorten Life Expectancy

By Jimmy Warren

Studies involving 900,000 people have concluded that weighing too much can reduce your life span by a decade.

For adults who are over weight by 40 pounds or more the unhealthy weight may cut down three year of their life span.

The study also confirms that anyone who is 100 or more pounds over weight can reduce their life by more than a decade. Richard Peto, one of the leading researchers and a professor of medical statistics at Oxford University in England, also said that being extremely obsessed is similar to lifelong smoking.

As per the inputs by Gary Whitlock, study co-author and an epidemiologist at Oxford, Obesity increase blood pressure and blood cholesterol and also triggers diabetes causing heart disease and stroke.

Most of the people lived in the USA and Western Europe. Also, 70,000 deaths were analyzed by the scientists.

There were 57 studies that included 900,000 adults, who were observed for 10-15 years by a team of the researchers and their colleagues. Most of them lived in the USA or Western Europe. Scientists also checked 70,000 deaths related the obesity.

The risk of early death increases by 30% by every 5-point increase in BMI, above a healthy weight.

The death risk increase by 30% by every 5 point increase in the BMI as compared to the healthy weight.

A years life span may be affected for the people who are overweight but not obese.

As said by Michael Thun, This is a valuable study that provides a much clearer picture of the risk associated with various levels of being overweight or obese," who is emeritus vice president of epidemiological research at the American Cancer Society.

To worsen the situation of one third of the adult population being obsessed, few of them are still not stopping to gain weight, says Michael Thun. It is easy to gain more weight then to lose once you are obsessed. To stop gaining weight should be our motto.

Thun also added saying, There is a mock fight that is taking place between obesity & smoking. Obesity & smoking both damage your body. Continuous smoking reduces 10 years of life which is as good as being obsessed. - 17269

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