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Obesity As Bad As Smoking

Government regulation of our diet is on the way.

Being overweight or seriously underweight as a teenager curbs life expectancy as much as smoking 10 cigarettes a day, a study suggests.

Swedish researchers followed 46,000 men from the age of 18 for 38 years.

Being obese or smoking more than 10 a day doubled the premature death risk, the British Medical Journal reported.

Being overweight, seriously underweight or smoking 10 or less raised it by 30% - and interestingly the fat non-smoker ran the same risk as the fat smoker.

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Betty McBride, of the British Heart Foundation, said: “The government need to bring the same level of sustained focus to tackling the obesity crisis it has previously brought to smoking.”

“The number of young people who are overweight and obese is growing. Without tackling this now we risk the next generation growing up with more health problems than their parents.”

Posted by Owen at 2057 hrs
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