https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2016/08/10/fat-people-face-higher-risk-of-dying-before-70.aspxStrong new evidence has shown that being overweight takes about a year off your life, and being severely obese takes about 10 years off your life. The study, reported on by The Straits Times , was very large and used almost 4 million people from 4 continentsenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)