Weight Can Affect Health, Life Span
Posted on: Friday, 28 July 2006, 15:00 CDT
Overweight Americans usually are sick considerably more than their thinner contemporaries, look older and die younger, a new survey shows.
Researchers at Columbia University in New York found that overweight and obese women spend an average of three more years in ill health than normal-weight women. Heavy men, on average, are sicker one more year than their thinner counterparts.
The survey indicates further that overweight Americans are sicker late in life than normal-weight people and die prematurely, USA Today said.
Heavy people are more likely to suffer from pain, arthritis, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses.
About 136 million U.S. adults are overweight or obese, government reports say. About one-third of children and teens, or 25 million children, are overweight or at risk of becoming so, the survey shows.
Source: United Press International
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