Being overweight, obese cuts lifespan by one to 10 years: study

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PARIS: Being overweight shaves about a year off one’s life expectancy, a heavy price which soars to 10 years for the severely obese, a large-scale study said Thursday.

Published in The Lancet medical journal, the paper refuted earlier findings that carrying a few extra kilos poses no perils, pointing to evidence that death risk grew “steadily and steeply” in line with corpulence.