The Five Problems That Obesity Causes

1. Reduced Life Expectancy The first problem of obesity to focus on is the one that many obese people think about the least - you are less likely to live a long life if you are too fat. The life insurance companies have known this for a long time. They know that, for life insurance purposes, the fatter you are the worse the risk you are to them. The centers for disease control in Atlanta, Georgia, estimated that, depending on how you calculate the numbers, there were between 112,000 and 380,000 excess deaths from obesity-related disease in the United States during the year 2000. Whichever figure is correct, or something in between, it is a horrific statistic, far worse than road deaths (43,000) or terrorism (0) for that year. Even

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