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“Thanks largely to medical and public health advances, Americans are living longer than ever. The average life expectancy in 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, was nearly 78. That’s up from 47 in 1900 and 68 in 1950.

But even as the market for anti-aging pills and products has never been hotter with Americans seeking a longer life, some experts say we as a nation are doing ourselves in with our couch-potato culture of eating way too much and exercising far too little. Some health professionals even raise the controversial notion that today’s generation of kids like Justin — about a third of whom are overweight or obese — may be the first to live shorter lives than their parents.

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In 2005, Olshansky and colleagues published a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine predicting that in the coming decades, the obesity epidemic and its health consequences would reverse the upward longevity curve in America over the last century, slashing life expectancy by two to five years — more than the impact of cancer or heart disease.

Olshansky says he’s particularly concerned about obesity in children, which has tripled since 1970, because they could be dealing with diabetes, heart disease and other weight-related health problems for a longer period of time and face a greater toll.

Predicting the future, of course, is a rather uncertain science. And researchers studying life expectancy may use different methods to go about it.

Olshansky’s team, for instance, based their forecast on the prevalence of obesity and on reports of the years of life lost from it. They estimated the effect of obesity on life expectancy for the U.S. population based on reductions in death rates that would occur if everyone who was obese would lose enough weight to have an optimal body mass index (BMI). “

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There is no such thing as being healthy and overweight.  Only you can make the decision to lose the weight, to have better health and to live longer.  Cleasning regularly will allow you to have a healthy weight.

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