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Obesity
- Soon to become the biggest killer
According
to a health warning about weight, issued by the US Surgeon General,
obesity may soon overtake smoking as the leading cause of preventable
deaths in the US. The facts are compelling.
- In
America, an estimated 58 million adults are overweight; 40 million
are obese (seriously overweight) and 3 million suffer from life-threatening
obesity (morbid obesity)
- Since
1990, there has been a 76 percent increase in Type 2 diabetes
in adults aged 30-40 years old
- Each
year an estimated 300,000 Americans die prematurely of disease
caused by or related to obesity or being very overweight? (versus
400,000 tobacco-related)
Recent
figures show that in the past two decades the number of overweight
children and adolescents has doubled. Also, over one-half of all
American adults are overweight and this number of obese adults
has doubled.
Please note that these facts come from America, but correlate
with most Western cultures!
Your
3d Coach
Craig
Burton
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