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To: SheLion
Yeah, big news. Fat people die younger and have more health problems. Gee, who would have guessed that?
5 posted on 06/12/2002 4:51:46 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre
Yeah, big news. Fat people die younger and have more health problems. Gee, who would have guessed that?

That's "Obese people who don't get sufficient physical exercise die younger and have more health problems." Physically active obese males have lower risk for death due to heart disease than physically inactive lean males. And this holds true even for those physically active obese males with risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. The link between obesity and asthma is likely to be a too clean house in which children would rather sit on their increasingly obese asses playing video games and watching TV than going outdoors and engaging in physical activity and giving their immune systems a healthy challenge while they're at it.
7 posted on 06/12/2002 5:02:09 PM PDT by aruanan
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