Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Childhood obesity linked to early death: US study

Being obese as a child increases the risk of dying before you reach 55, says a study published Wednesday, a day after US First Lady Michelle Obama launched a program to fight childhood obesity amid warnings it is shortening lives.

Out of 4,857 non-diabetic Native American children aged five to 20 who took part in the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 166 died before they reached the age of 55 of disease or self-inflicted injury such as alcohol intoxication or drug use -- called "endogenous causes".  Read more...




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