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Show OVERWEIGHT MY RESULT IN POOR HEALTH It's smart to be thin, more for the sake of your health than of your appearance, says ' Aiken Welch, who tells how overweight can harm, in Redbook Magazine for January: "Studies indicate that by age fifty, one of every two women in the United States weighs from ten to fifty pounds more than she should . And married women are 28 percent heavier than single ones of the same age. Most doctors and scientific investigators agree that we men and women weigh too much simply because we eat too much. "We should think twice before taking second helpings: fori humanitarian reasons, to help feed Europe's starving populations, and for common-sense reasons, to live longer. ' "Dr. Harry J. Johnson, director of the Life Extension Institute, says flatly that obesity excessive fatness is the Number One Killer Kill-er of the Twentieth Century. Recently Re-cently a two-week seminar on metabolism, the New York Academy Acad-emy of Medicine found that the primary metabolic problem in this country is over-weight. Obesity was called by one delegate a' disease,' dis-ease,' because is not only decreases decreas-es the chances for recovery; it can actually lead to disease for example, ex-ample, heart disease. "Obesity is frequently associated with hypertension, or high blood pressure. In a recent study by Doctors Robert Levy, Paul White and William Stroud, they agreed that overweight alone is a significant signifi-cant factor in increasing the casualty cas-ualty rate for disease of the heart, blood vessels and kidneys. Add to that gall-bladder disease, which has a high mortality among overweight over-weight persons in their middle forties. for-ties. "Another disease related to overweight over-weight is diabetes. In recent years it has increased markedly and eight times more frequently among the fat than the lean. Many a person who has supposedly inherited in-herited the - tendency to.. diabetes can ward off the disease by staying stay-ing thin. Shortness of breath in fat people is partly due to the inability in-ability of the diaphragm to move, because it is pushed upward by the fat in the abdomen, which in turn hampers the bellows action of the lungs. Hence any disease that affects the breathing apparatus, appara-tus, such as pneumonia, is dangerous danger-ous to the fat person. Likewise, the problem of administering anesthesia anes-thesia in operative cases is complicated com-plicated by restricted lung action. "X-ray pictures of the spine and knees of older people frequently show advanced changes in bone structure called ostearthritis, which seldom bottlers thin people but can cause agony for the overweight. over-weight. "The best and safest way to reduce re-duce is by dieting under a doctor's direction." |