Not only can it lead to diabetes, hypertension and many other health issues, people who are overweight or obese are more likely to die sooner from various causes than those with healthy weight.
Two-thirds of Americans and at least half the people in many developed countries are now considered overweight or obese.
Previous studies have documented higher death rates in the obese, while being inconclusive about the risks of being overweight. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, pooled the results of 19 studies and excluded smokers to provide precise estimates of increased death risks.
The analysis looked at people’s body mass index, or BMI, a measure of weight based on height. They also identified a sweet spot that they found was healthiest, a BMI between 20 and 24.9. To be in that category, people who are 5-feet 5-inches tall should weigh between 120 and 149 pounds and people who are 5-feet 10-inches should weigh 140 to 173 pounds.
Weighing more than your BMI measure of weight, can put you into the overweight category and starts increasing health risk and problems that can lead to death.
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