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There is, of course, no better motivator than raw fear. If none of the following items creates at least a small sense of urgency among those who find it difficult to start shedding some flab, we give up.

1. Persons who are obese in their youth are subject to a number of long-term health problems later in life, and are more than twice as likely to die before they reach the age of 55. Health experts have felt this to be true based on experience for years, but now a long-term study of 5,000 kids from age 11 onward has nailed it down: the higher your BMI, especially when young, the more probable it is that you will cash in prematurely. In some cases, several decades prematurely.

2. Persons who don’t become overweight until later in life still shorten their healthy lifespan compared to the more thin. A study of 17,000 American adults beginning at around age 50 found that every BMI point they gained thereafter reduced their chance of surviving to age 70 by 12 percent. Other findings: every 2.2 pounds a woman gains after age 18 lowers her chances of living past 70 by 5 percent; women who are already overweight at age 18 and go on to pack on another 22 pounds have just one chance in five of reaching age 70 without serious health problems, the most common being cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Meanwhile, a recently published British study found that if you have a BMI of 30 to 35, expect to live three years less than the normal weighted, and if it’s over 40, a good 10 years less.

3. An eight-year Wake Forest University study of people over 60 found that those who followed a weight loss program and dropped around 10 pounds were only half as likely to die in that time as those who did not.

4. In a brief update to a recent CalorieLab post noting that obese drivers are statistically less likely to use their seat belts, thus raising their risk of injury from accidents, data analysis of 11,000 front-end crashes by the Medical College of Wisconsin reveals that obese men are much more likely to suffer serious injury to the upper body, especially to the head, spine and thorax.

(By Robert S. Wieder for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)