A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine states that the heaviest children are twice as likely to die prematurely, before the age of 55, of illness or self-inflicted injury. The study tracked thousands of kids through adulthood.
“This suggests,” said Helen C. Looker, senior author of the paper and assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, “that obesity in children, even prepubescent children, may have very serious long-term health effects through midlife — that there is something serious being set in motion by obesity at early ages.” Dr. Looker added, “We all expect to get beyond 55 these days.”
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