Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
New research from Canadian scientists has broken down the effect that obesity can have on the human body into the simplest of terms – it can cut your life short by as many as 8 years.
Published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, the study also found that being obese can rob a person of as many as 19 healthy years of life due to metabolic conditions like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
\”Our computer modeling study shows that obesity is associated with an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease (including heart disease and stroke) and diabetes that will, on average, dramatically reduce an individual’s life expectancy and the healthy life-years free from living with these chronic illnesses compared with people of normal weight,\” said study author Dr. Steven Grover, a professor of medicine at McGill University.
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