Nothing Wrong Being Overweight |
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Myth number 10: There's nothing wrong with being overweight. The health risks associated with weighing more than you should accumulate as soon as you are as little as 71b overweight. With over half of people in States overweight and 20 per cent obese, that's a lot of extra health risks. And these are serious risks: heart disease, diabetes, kidney problems, osteoporosis, cancer and arthritis. One study showed that about 40 per cent of heart disease in women is linked to overweight, while others connect it to higher risks of breast cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis and other complications. Diabetes is strongly linked to obesity. In fact, every year obesity causes the premature deaths of 30,000 people, costs Britain's National Health Service CC billion and is responsible for the loss of more than 20 million working days. According to Dr Susan Jebb of the Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge in the UK, 'Obesity is a serious medical condition that reduces life expectancy by increasing the risk of many chronic and potentially fatal diseases.' And with a thousand people becoming obese every day, we need to wake up to the fact that there's a disaster in the making here but only potentially. It only looks like a slippery slope: there is a way out. |
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