Obesity threatens to cut U.S. life expectancy.

From: San Fernando Valley Business Journal | Date: March 28, 2005 | Copyright information

Over the next few decades, life expectancy for the average American could decline by as much as 5 years unless aggressive efforts are made to slow rising rates of obesity, according to a team of scientists supported in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The U.S. could be facing its first sustained drop in life expectancy in the modern era, the researchers say, but this decline is not inevitable if Americans--particularly younger ones--trim their waistlines ...

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