Obese people – Losing Weight can Increase Your Lifespan by a Decade.
Monday, March 23rd, 2009According to a CNN health report, obesity can remove 2 to 4 years off the average lifespan of a person. Being very obese can shorten the lifespan by 8 to 10 years or more according to a new scientific study which included almost a million people.
Professor of global health, Ali Mokdad, Ph.D., at the University of Washington, states, “This is scary and something that we should pay close attention to. These new findings actually underestimate the true impact of obesity on society because they don’t address the costs of obesity-related illnesses and other factors.”
The original study was conducted by the eminent epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto of the University of Oxford. This study was conducted to figure out how exactly a body mass index (BMI) relates to mortality.