Obesity Is Leading Preventable Cause Of US Lost Life-Years, Research Suggests.

reports “obesity is the leading cause of preventable life-years lost in the nation,” according to research scheduled to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Researchers found that the “other top preventable health problems” in the US are “diabetes, tobacco, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.” https://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutrition-information-27/obesity-health-news-505/the-top-5-conditions-that-shorten-americans-lives-and-are-preventable-721890.html