Nutrition in the news this week
Obesity and Deaths: Some interesting nutrition research was reported this week. One study focused on obesity and noted more Americans are dying from obesity than previously thought. Columbia University researchers have found that obesity accounts for nearly 20 percent of deaths for ages 40-85. This is significant as previously they thought only 5% of deaths in adults was due to obesity. So why is obesity causing more deaths than previously thought? It seems researchers are now concluding that obesity has far worse consequences than previous reports indicated. This increase in deaths due to obesity may shorten life expectancy. "Ryan Masters, a co- author of the study noted, “Obesity has dramatically worse health consequences than some recent reports have led us to believe. We expect that obesity will be responsible for an increasing share of deaths in the United States and perhaps even lead to declines in U.S. life expecta...