{"id":25476,"date":"2010-07-14T01:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T06:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=25476"},"modified":"2010-07-13T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T01:08:40","slug":"early-obesity-leads-to-premature-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/early-obesity-leads-to-premature-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Obesity Leads to Premature Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You never want to think that it’s too late to lose weight. But this news out of Stockholm, Sweden puts the urgency of childhood obesity<\/a> into perspective…<\/p>\n

According to a Danish study presented at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm, men who are obese by 20 years old will on average die eight years earlier than their healthier peers.<\/p>\n

The study examined more than 5,000 military<\/a> enlistees, starting at age 20 through 80 years old. Of those, about 2,000 were obese from the beginning.<\/p>\n

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What they found was the risk for premature death in those men who were already obese increased 10 percent for every point above the healthy level of a 25 Body Mass Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Our finding shows that at any given age, an obese man was twice as likely to die as a man who was not obese and that obesity at age 20 years had a constant effect on death up to 60 years later,” said lead author Esther Zimmerman of Copenhagen University Hospital.<\/p>\n

The researchers compared two groups, examining the mortality in a sample of 1,930 obese male military conscripts with that of a random sample of 3,601 non-obese male military enlistees.<\/p>\n

“At age 70 years, 70 percent of the men in the comparison group and 50 percent of those in the obese group were still alive and we estimated that from middle-age the obese were likely to die eight years earlier than those in the comparison group,” said Esther Zimmermann of Copenhagen University Hospital.<\/p>\n

(via: MSNBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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