A Little Overweight? You Could Live 7 or More Years Less

By Jimmy Warren

There was a study that took place involving 900,000 people that confirmed that weighing too much can reduce your life span by 10 to 15 years.

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

One of the lead researchers and a professor of medical statistics at Oxford University in England, Richard Peto, concluded as per his studies that being obsessed is similar to a lifelong of smoking.

In the USA, 66% of the people are either overweight or obese. Also one third are obese, which means that the body mass index is of 30 or greater. BMI is nothing but a measurement based on height & weight. The findings that were examined by the researchers and their colleagues included 57 studies that involved 900,000 adults who were observed over a span of 10 to 15 years.

Its been observed that 66% of the adults are over weight or obese. To add to that one third are obese, i.e. the body mass index being more 30. BMI is nothing but a measurement based on height & weight.

As per online details today & in soon to be published edition of The Lancet.

Every 5-point increase in BMI, above healthy weight increases the risk of early death by 30%.

People who are not obese but are over weight, with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 may have their life span reduced by a year.

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.

The situation at hand says that almost one third of the US population is obese. Plus few of them are continuing to put on more weight. It is very easy to gain weight in this obese condition as compared to losing.

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