Excess weight in young adulthood predicts shorter lifespan
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- Those 25-year-olds who are overweight now but think they will be fine as long as they lose weight eventually might need to reconsider. A study appearing online in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that people who are overweight during young adulthood are likely to die earlier than others.