Much of obesity is related to the risk of heart disease and stroke and to a lesser extent cancer.

Among middle-aged people in the UK, as one in four deaths are caused by heart attack or stroke, and one in 16 cancer deaths are due to overweight or obese, according to researchers estimate.

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In adulthood, it may be easier to prevent substantial weight gain, to lose weight once you have won, they say.

Thus the body mass index (BMI) was calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared, an example would be:

Normal: 18.5 to 24.9
Overweight: 25 to 29.9
Obese: Above 30

It is very important to calculate your BMI, to avoid excess in middle age, which could add years to life.

Professor Peter Weissberg of the British Heart Foundation supported the work and said: “This is the last and most convincing demonstration of the close relationship between overweight and poor heart health, while confirming that smoking is harmful, regardless of weight.

“We all have a role to play in maintaining a healthy weight in ourselves, but this study highlights the importance of public health measures adopted in Britain, as the recent campaign” Change x’s life, forming part of a series of government initiatives that will be needed to reduce the weight of the nation. ”

Epidemiologist Dr. Gary Whitlock, University of Oxford, who led the analysis, said: “Being overweight shortens human life.”

A new study in Clinical Cardiology examines the average fitness level of the morbidly obese (BMI between 40.0 and 49.9).

The results show that sedentary people proved that for more than 99 percent of the day and on average, walked less than 2500 steps per day, which is well below the guidelines of a healthy lifestyle which includes about 10,000 steps per day.

The results provide important links between obesity, poor fitness and cardiovascular disease.

The study used a precision sensor in the body continuously for measuring physical activity, caloric expenditure and the minute movement for a period of 72 hours within their home environments.

After collecting the data, structured cardio-respiratory function, the test was performed in each skill.

Most morbidly obese participants in the study were markedly sedentary and slept on average 23 hours and 51.6 minutes per day, without sustained daily activity and the remaining group took 8.4 minutes of moderate activity. On average, the subjects drank 3763 ± 2223 steps.

The higher level of activity achieved by one person for a period of 24 hours was 28 minutes of moderate activity.

Obesity contributes to five of the 10 diseases with the highest mortality rates of cardiovascular diseases, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and cancer.

Increasingly, new technological advances encourage individuals to move less and spend less calories, however, has shown that, despite being obese persons with moderate to high levels of cardio-respiratory fitness are cardiovascular mortality rates 71 percent lower than their unfit counterparts.