Being overweight, obese cuts lifespan by one to 10 years
Paris
Paris - Arab Today
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Being overweight shaves about a year off one's life expectancy, a heavy price which soars to 10 years for the severely obese, a large-scale study said Thursday. Published in The Lancet medical journal, the paper refuted earlier findings that carrying a few extra kilos poses no perils, pointing to evidence that death risk grew "steadily and steeply" in line with corpulence. |
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Paris - Emiratesvoice
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Taipei - Emiratesvoice
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Paris - Emiratesvoice
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to 'eternal style' of late Alaia
Paris - Emiratesvoice
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