2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
We live eight years less and live in poor health for almost 20 years due to obesity, say Canadian scientists, whose study was quoted by the Daily Mail.
For their research, the specialists used a computer model whose task was to suggest the consequences of obesity. It is estimated that heart disease and diabetes deprive overweight people of almost 19 years of life in good health.
The body mass index measures weight in relation to a person's height and it can be used to assess whether a person is overweight - health values are between 18.5 and 24.99. Those people who have a body mass index (BMI) between 25 and 30 will shorten their lives by up to three years, Canadian scientists explain.
And people with a BMI over 35 lose eight years of their lives. It is believed that if a person has an index between 25 and 30, he suffers from obesity, and a person with values above 30 is considered clinically obese.
However, these results may be inaccurate when it comes to pregnant women or athletes. If a person has a body mass index above 35, experts say that he has morbid obesity.
Professor Stephen Grover is the head of research for Canadian scientists and works at McGill University in Montreal. He explains that the computer model used by scientists clearly shows that obesity increases the risk of heart disease, stroke or diabetes.
This in turn will significantly reduce life expectancy and years in good health without chronic diseases compared to those people who have a normal weight.
Surveys in May 2014 showed that 48.8 percent of Bulgarian women are overweight.
According to Professor Stefka Petrova, who works at the National Center for Public Health and Analysis, every third Bulgarian child under the age of seven is also overweight.
These are data from a study conducted last year, which involved 3,300 children from all over Bulgaria. The same survey was conducted in 2008 in the same schools. Data show that about a third of the world's population is obese.
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