{"id":3640,"date":"2014-12-07T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2014-12-11T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:38:53","slug":"obesity-may-shorten-life-expectancy-by-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/obesity-may-shorten-life-expectancy-by-8-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity may shorten life expectancy by 8 years<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3665\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8200130145_2d06e15efa_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3665\" class=\"wp-image-3665 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8200130145_2d06e15efa_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Individuals who are obese have a lifespan up to eight years shorter than those at a healthy weight. (Photo credit: <a>Tony Alter, flicker<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Individuals who are obese or overweight may be shortening their lives by up to eight\u00a0years, according to a new study. In addition to this new decrease in life expectancy, obese and overweight individuals have a higher chance of developing diabetes or cardiovascular disease earlier in life.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that individuals who are overweight to obese according to their body mass index have a life expectancy up to eight years shorter than a healthy individual.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found that age is also an important factor as individuals who gained excess weight at a younger age suffered the greatest decrease in life expectancy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landia\/article\/PIIS2213-8587(14)70229-3\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>December 4<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steven Grover, McGill University, Quebec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals who are obese or overweight may be shortening their lives by up to eight\u00a0years, according to a new study. In addition to this new decrease in life expectancy, obese and overweight individuals have a higher chance of developing diabetes or cardiovascular disease earlier in life. The study found that individuals who are overweight to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,279,476,849],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-obesity","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8200130145_2d06e15efa_m.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-WI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}