Middle-age obesity shaves five years off life, study suggests

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Having a little junk in your trunk might shorten your life span by five years.
 
(Eddie Chau/ Healthing) — A study conducted by researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago suggests that being obese in middle age could cost a person up to five years of life.

According to the Daily Mail, researchers studied about 30,000 people for close to half a century and found that those who had a healthy weight died at an average age of 82.3 years. (…)

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