The paper refuted earlier findings that being overweight poses no perils. (Representational Image)
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.
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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.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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