I calculated that a randomly selected US obese population is about twice as likely to die, as a randomly selected US Non Obese population simply because they are older, as people tend to increase in BMI as they grow older.
I noticed 'N-Hanes I' had easy to use data because two groups had the exact same prevelance of obesity, with only the younger group being uniquely lighter weight. I just used the death probability for 30, 50 and 65 year olds for the three categories, and accidentally used only the male death rates, but the effect is still massive.
This is so simple, but it doesn't seem to be addressed in the literature. I am confused.
I'm not big on Special Relativity but is the increased mass of obese people causing them to travel through time faster?
Is that what everybody is worried about?/s
I agree with what is stated in the title of this statement. Obesity can trigger complex health problems through the metabolic syndrome pathway. When found to suffer from metabolic syndrome several metabolic disorders such as changes in lipid profile, blood pressure, blood sugar, immune response, changes in free fatty acids leading to peroxidation, activation of pro-inflammatory cytokines, insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus, free radicals and ROS. Keeping not fat (obese) is a must, especially as indicated by changes in abdominal circumference. A wise step is to regulate a balanced diet in quantity and quality, avoid eating oily or fat and high in calories, adequate exercise, adequate rest is the key to avoiding obesity.
@ Judiono
You have misunderstood. None of the data I am using for the calculation looks at risk factors for weight, it only looks at the risk factor for AGE, and looks at the age of Obese vs Non Obese populations.
People who are obese or overweight and are old are likely to die fast compared to older people with normal weight this is because obesity causes complications such as high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. these diseases increases the chance of them dying faster, plus older people tend to have high cholesterol levels which causes obesity this is because as people age their basal metabolic rate decreases because as people age they become less active and start loosing muscles.
@ Linda Mukhwana Kundu
"Likely"
But where are the studies that compare people at the exact same age. Or even acknowledge or try to control for this at all?
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