Quotes from Eric A. Finkelstein

The study suggests that weight problems could cancel out life-extending benefits of medical advances in the coming decades.

In fact, according to one recent study, poor diet and physical inactivity may soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of death in America.21

For example, one study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that those who are 30 pounds overweight lose between one and six years of life, while those who are about 100 pounds overweight"' lose up to 13 years of life.