"New research shows 'alarming levels' of obesity in most ethnic groups in the United States, principal investigator Dr. Gregory L. Burke, of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina told Reuters Health. The study also confirms the potentially deadly toll obesity exacts on the heart and blood vessels.'The obesity epidemic has the potential to reduce further gains in U.S. life expectancy, largely through an effect on cardiovascular disease mortality (death),' Burke and colleagues warn in the latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine."
And as to the drugs to keep these fat people functioning at their low levels:
"The investigators also found that obese adults, compared with normal-weight adults, had higher rates of high blood pressure (up to more than twice as high), abnormal lipids (two- to three-fold higher), and diabetes, despite a 'huge number' being on costly medications to lower blood pressure and lipid levels and control diabetes, Burke said.
'As the obesity numbers increase further, we will spend an even larger amount of health care dollars just treating risk factors,' Burke said."
Don't stand for it. Fight back.
"Obese adults also had more silent vascular disease (blood vessel disease that causes no symptoms); they had more atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and thicker heart walls, even after adjusting for 'traditional' risk factors like high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels...
'Our findings support the imperative to redouble our efforts to assist in increasing healthy behaviors and to remove...barriers to maintaining a healthy weight,' Burke and colleagues conclude."
Would be a good idea, but for the fact that expert weight loss advice is the number one cause of diet failure.
Now there is a Catch-22 for you.
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