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Hello my freinds, look at what the medical journal has to share with us today. New days means new developments and the more i see things i get convinced that fat loss is really important for all of us. Here have a look at this exert from yahoo.news.com

“New study shows the odds of dying early are highest among obese smokers.
“We know that obesity and smoking by themselves are important health risk factors,” said lead researcher Annemarie Koster, an epidemiologist at the U.S. National Institute on Aging. “We found that smoking and obesity are independent predictors of mortality, but smoking and being obese especially increases the mortality risk.”
Smoking and obesity both carry a significant mortality risk, but particularly smoking, Koster said. “It seems that smoking cessation was associated with significantly lower mortality risk in every weight group,” she said. “Quitting smoking will definitely improve your mortality risk, no matter in what weight group you are.”
Losing weight will also lower mortality risk, Koster said. “Both losing weight and quitting smoking will increase your health and lower your mortality risk,” she said.

The researchers found that as weight increased, so did the rate of death. Across all weights, people who smoked had the highest death rates.
In fact, obese smokers had a six to eight times greater risk of dying compared with normal weight people who never smoked. In addition, among smokers with a large waist, the risk of dying was five times greater than among people with the smallest waists who never smoked, Koster’s team found.

This report reaffirms the strong interactive effects of smoking and excess body fat on the risk of death, Katz said.
“If you are overweight and smoke, fixing either one can markedly improve your chances for a normal life span,” Katz said. “Fix both, and the probability of benefit is huge. The message is clear: We all have the power to choose a better medical destiny.”

Hmm guess fat loss is just as lethal as smoking and together combined is a sure one way ticket to meet your maker.

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