A recent study suggested that being overweight or seriously underweight as a teenager curbs life expectancy as much as smoking 10 cigarettes a day. Being obese or smoking more than 10 a day doubled the premature death risk. An overweight, seriously underweight or smoking 10 or less raised it by 30% and interestingly the fat non-smoker ran the same risk as the fat smoker.

Those who were underweight (with a Body Mass Index [BMI] of less than 18.5) had no increased risk of dying early, regardless of whether they smoked or not. But the team of researcher found out that those who were seriously underweight – with a BMI of 17 or less – ran the same risk as those who were overweight. Compared to normal weight adolescents, being overweight at the age of 18 increased the risk of premature death by just over a third, while being obese more than doubled the risk and this risk increased regardless of smoking status.

For those patients who are overweight and smoke what they should work on first, well as always said smoking as the wisdom has always been that this poses more health risks. Researcher said that the number of young people who are overweight and obese is growing. Without tackling this now we risk the next generation growing up with more health problems than their parents.

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