Obesity can reduce your age
I have heard in more than one occasion that famous statistical output do not know where it says that each cigarette represents three minutes less than life. Despite the fact that it is clear that smoking reduces life expectancy, I find it hard to see this in a different way more than a mere popular belief.
In this statistical line fits a study conducted by the Clinical Trial Service of the United Kingdom, which publishes in The Lancet a study that took account of the data of more than one million people to throughout the world, which concludes that the obesity can steal 10 years of life.
For that have been based on a famous index, the Body Mass Index (BMI), which was obtained by dividing the weight in kilograms of a person by the square of your height in meters. This gives a number that reaches its optimum levels between 20 and 25. The researchers argue that each increment in the BMI of more to the area healthy 20-25 entails a risk of premature death increased for the individual.
The severe obesity, for example, with a BMI of between 40 and 50 units implies greater risk of premature death, with a reduction of the life expectancy of 10 years. For lower levels of between 30 and 39 units of the risk of life is three years younger.
Far from the line of this study, I have always seen these data hard as little credible. In addition, the IMC I always has proved to be a measure somewhat arbitrary, also does not apply equally to the same universe population. The important thing is to have the support of your doctor. While he tells you that you are well regardless of your BMI stay quiet that you will live long enough.