Obesity tops smoking as risk

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Now this ought to help get WLS have greater support.

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le=408058003

Obesity tops smoking as risk

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Obese adults have more chronic health problems than

smokers, heavy drinkers or the poor, according to a study released

Wednesday. The report by the RAND institute in Santa found that obese

people have on average nearly twice the chronic health troubles of people of

normal weight. " We didn't expect this big difference, " said Roland Sturm, a

RAND economist and lead author of the survey, which was published in the

latest edition of the British journal Public Health. The study also found

that smoking harms the health of women more than men, with female smokers

having about 40% more chronic health problems than nonsmokers. The figure

was 30% for men. The study found that more people are overweight or obese

than are those collectively who smoke, drink heavily and live below the

federal poverty line.

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