Showing posts with label fatties. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Fatties Die Just As Smokers Do! (But Don't We All?)

THE TELEGRAPH: Teenage obesity carries the same risk of premature death as those who smoke ten cigarettes a day, researchers have found.

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The number of early deaths in people who smoked more than ten cigarettes a day but were a healthy weight was the same as non-smokers who were obese, a study has found.

Smoking between one and ten cigarettes a day produced a similar risk to being overweight but not obese, the research in the British Medical Journal showed. Teenage Obesity Is as Bad for Health as Smoking: Research >>> By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor | Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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