{"id":6152,"date":"2009-03-04T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2009-03-03T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:45:21","slug":"smoking-and-obesity-are-equally-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/smoking-and-obesity-are-equally-fatal\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking and Obesity are Equally Fatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of smokers, most non-smokers think about the elementary fact that they are at a serious risk of premature death. And often, people scoff at the behavior as being careless, which usually begins in the impressionable teenage years. But research now shows that it&#8217;s not any more dangerous (or frivolous) for young adults to smoke than it is to be overweight.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/smoking_teen.jpg\" alt=\"teen smoker\" width=\"170\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Martin Neovius of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and his colleagues stressed that since overweight and smoking are both associated with increased risks of cardiovascular disease and certain <a title=\"cancer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/new-way-to-prevent-cancer\/\" target=\"_self\">cancers<\/a>, that if young adults fall in either category, they are at risk of an early death. Although the pathogenic mechanisms differ, he said, a synergistic effect of smoking and <a title=\"obesity and headaches\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/obesity-linked-to-headaches-and-migraines\/\" target=\"_self\">obesity<\/a> may be possible.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that obesity and being overweight in late adolescence increased mortality risk, regardless of whether or not they also smoked.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers concluded that &#8220;overweight, obesity, and smoking among adolescents might be good targets for intensified public <a title=\"diets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/\" target=\"_self\">health initiatives<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"smoking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/PrimaryCare\/Smoking\/13065\" target=\"_blank\">MedPage Today<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of smokers, most non-smokers think about the elementary fact that they are at a serious risk of premature death. And often, people scoff at the behavior as being careless, which usually begins in the impressionable teenage years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/smoking-and-obesity-are-equally-fatal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,804],"tags":[31,29,92,716,1043,3713],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-heart-disease","tag-health-news","tag-nutrition","tag-obesity","tag-overweight","tag-smoking","tag-teen-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6215,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}