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Obesity, premature death and life span
Obesity is known to contribute to many diseases and premature death. However, the impact of just being overweight but not "obese" has been hotly debated.
Studies in (New England Journal of Medicine) confirm what many of us had long suspected, i.e. even a little extra weight is harmful and shortens life.
In one of these studies, Dr. Adams and colleagues from National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, studied the impact of overweight, obesity, and mortality in subjects 50 to 71 years old.
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They studied body mass index (BMI) and its relation to the risk of death in over five hundred thousand subjects. Results were adjusted for age, race or ethnicity, education, smoking , physical activity, alcohol intake and preexisting diseases.
Examination of BMI in nonsmoking subjects above the age of 50 years revealed that the risk of death increases by 20 to 40 percent among overweight persons and by two to three fold among obese persons.
The other study concluded that underweight, overweight, and obese men and women had higher rates of death than men and women of normal weight.
Bottomline: Maintaining a healthy weight and preventing weight gain especially in middle age is critical for a longer and healthy life.
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