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Childhood obesity linked to early death: US study (647 hits)

Being obese as a child increases the risk of dying before you reach 55, says a study published Wednesday, a day after US First Lady Michelle Obama launched a program to fight childhood obesity amid warnings it is shortening lives.

Out of 4,857 non-diabetic Native American children aged five to 20 who took part in the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 166 died before they reached the age of 55 of disease or self-inflicted injury such as alcohol intoxication or drug use -- called "endogenous causes". Read more...

Posted By: Steven Muhammad
Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 11:44PM
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We must learn How to Eat to Live. Following the western way of living is killing us physically and spiritually.

Best thing to do, Come Out of Her, follow not the way of the western (white) way of life, the includes, culture, values, norms, how they relax and recreation, none of it is healthy for the Black man and woman.

We should return to our own culture and way of life - Islam. NOT the Islam that the Arabs practice, but true Islam that is found is the Holy Quran, Bible and Nation of Islam's books written by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 11:50PM
Steven Muhammad