Obesity similar to premature aging say scientists

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Worldwide, over 2 billion people are overweight or obese. Obesity figures have almost tripled since 1975. In children and adolescents, it’s even worse, with a ten-fold increase in the same time-frame. What are we doing wrong here? Perhaps we’ve been looking at the obesity epidemic the wrong way, scientists say. In a new study, they suggest – somewhat provocatively – that we’ve missed what obesity actually represents. Obesity, the team claims, is essentially a form of premature ageing – something that endangers our health and shortens our lives in ways that are remarkably similar to the inevitable processes of getting …read more

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