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That obesity can cut life short by causing
strokes and other illnesses comes as no surprise,
but a recent study reported quantifies the toll: The
most extreme cases cut a person's lifespan more
than cigarettes.

The analysis, published in the journal PLoS
Medicine, is the largest-ever study of the effect of
extreme obesity on mortality. It found that
people who are extremely obese – for someone
of average height, carrying an extra 100 lb (45
kg) or more – die 6.5 to 13.7 years earlier than their peers with a healthy weight.

The study, based on data from 20 large studies of
people in the United States, Sweden and Australia,
comes as rates of obesity have soared.
Worldwide, nearly 30 percent of people, or 2.1
billion, are either obese or overweight.


Overweight or obese?

"Overweight" is defined by body mass index
(BMI), a measure of weight relative to height. A
BMI, or weight in kilograms divided by the square
of height in meters, of 25.0 to 29.9 is considered
overweight. At the low end, that is 150 lb (68 kg)
for someone 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 meters) tall.

"Obesity" means a BMI of 30 or higher (180 lb at
5 feet 5 inches). "Extreme obesity" is a BMI of 40
or higher, or 241 lb at that height. (BMI Calculator
here: http://1.usa.gov/1aHAVvu )

Results of the study

The study included data on 9,564 adults with
extreme obesity and 304,011 of normal weight.
The overall risk of dying at any given time rose
continuously with increasing BMI within the
extremely obese group, mostly due to heart
disease, cancer and diabetes.
People with a BMI of 40 to 44.9 lost an average of
6.5 years of life. Those with a BMI of 45 to 49.9
lost 8.9 years, while BMIs of 50 to 54.9 cut 9.8
years and 55 to 59.9 cut 13.7 years. Among
people with a healthy weight, those who smoked
lost about 8.9 years.

The study, by scientists at the National Cancer
Institute, did not calculate whether less extreme
obesity shortens life, and the researchers could
not say whether the results would hold for
poorer, non-Western populations.
Because extreme obesity was so rare in the past,
it was not possible to calculate its effect on
mortality until now.

The new calculation is unlikely to cause people
with extreme obesity to shed pounds, for "that
presupposes that the main reason people don't
lose weight is lack of willpower, and I'd argue
that's not the case," said Dr Lee Kaplan, director of
the weight centre at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "But it could have a beneficial
effect if it galvanizes society to change in ways
that stop promoting obesity and to develop
aggressive treatments for extreme obesity."

In the United States, 36 percent of adults are
obese, according to the National Centre for Health
Statistics. The incidence of BMIs of 40 or higher
has more than quadrupled since the mid-1980s,
and about one in six U.S. adults is extremely
obese.

By: Peregrino Brimah

Why did I tell my friends that I hoped and prayed
Nigeria soon got knocked out of the World Cup?
Why did I jump when France scored its first goal
against Nigeria and dance when they scored the
second? The answer is not that I am not patriotic;
on the contrary, I love Nigerian life as much or more than any. It’s simple – Nigeria did not and
does not deserve to be at the World cup and does
not deserve any sort of ‘victory’ from it.

Where are our girls? Our daughters have been in
the jungle, raped and killed by ‘Shekau’ for three
long months and our adults are running around
a pitch, tapping a leather ball and hoping to
dance victory dances? Do we think of all the girls
with ‘Shekau’ who are fans of the national team and would have loved to be watching the
matches at home as we are? Do we imagine how
life is for them… now they have practically
acclimatized and accepted their destiny as the
‘prostitutes’ of randy terrorists? Do we imagine
what their families – also soccer fans – are going through as we relax and enjoy the world cup
games? If we did, where is the evidence?

If it was any other nation, our players would have
requested a minute extra for prayers for all the
victims of Boko Haram – the Nigerian terrorist
group that operates with arms and ammunition
from the nations armory and abducted our girls
and has continued to kill and bomb freely for four years with under the full impunity of our state
security services. But no, our players simply went
to play without any respect or compassion
publicly showed for the victims of state tolerated
and sponsored terror. No, our players did not
wear perhaps, red-colored wrist bands in solidarity with the victims of Boko Haram. No, our
players did not carry #BringBackOurGirls placards
in Brazil, and of course, no, they did not do the
ultimate – refuse to play, damning and staking all
to stand for justice.

What use would a victory have been for us? Who
is ‘us?’ What nation do we have that deserves a
victory? Are we a people? What global
opportunities do we expect to gain from a
football victory? What globe? Is it the same global
players who came to Nigeria to allegedly help us rescue our girls, but rather switched to installing
their agenda in Nigeria immediately they arrived,
forgetting the mission for which they were given
a limited invitation? Is it for accolades and credits
from the same world that has sponsored the
destruction of Libya, Syria, Iraq, Bosnia and what have you… that we want to please by proving we
can play football?

If these innocent girls were kidnapped in any
other nation on earth, an armed search party of
thousands of civilian volunteers would have set
out three months ago to comb the jungles of and
around Sambisa for these girls and the hundreds
of other girls and boys abducted before and after April 14, 2014; but not Nigeria: we all sat down,
at best, carried placards or sent out tweets with a
certain hashtag, and then we bought popcorn
and coca cola and sat back to watch Nigeria ‘win.’



I rejoiced in our loss. We deserved it for more
reasons than one. We are a nation at loss. We are
a lost nation.

News Headlines tomorrow:

- PDP blames APC for Brazil loss.

- APC blames Fifa for changing their ref due to
lack of
Penalties.

- Naija girls switch to german hair as against brazilian
hair.

- Super Eagles (excluding mikel) forgiven for
their
early-yet-honourable exit.

- PSG tell Chelsea; we want our £50m back, take your
David Luiz; we nor buy again.

- Pele changes nationality to Ghana says he has a
brother there.

-Fifa says †ђξ 7-1 loss was just a training match
†ђξ real match date will soon be announced as Brazil
weren't
ready.

-Scolari sack letter being typed at this moment.

Lmao #worldcup

President of the Nigeria Football
Federation Aminu Maigari has been arrested

Maigari and some board members in sight were
whisked away on Friday morning by security
operatives shortly after touching down in Abuja
from Brazil.

On Thursday, Maigari and his entire board were
sacked by a recent court order that restrain them
from acting as administrators of the NFF.

The suit was filed by former Nigeria Premier
League chairman Rumson Baribote, who
requested the court to restrain Maigari and all the
committee and congress of the NFF from
managing the affairs of football matters in Nigeria.

Hon. Justice P. L Lot of the Plateau State High Court
sitting in Jos granted the Order of Interlocutory
Injunction restraining the president of the NFF,
the executive committee members as well as the
NFF Congress from running affairs of Nigerian
football pending the determination of the Motion on Notice before the court.

Botanical Name 4 SNAIL Is MIKELIS OBILIS

Terrible. Clay footed feet. Pregnant legs. Clueless
brain. Backward passes. Easily losing possession.

Lack of confidence
Very poor passes. Creating leaks in the mid field. Dis-
jointed from the team and useless on the pitch.
Making dangerous back passes to the Keeper
Infact don't rate him. Just retire
him!

Whats your take guys

friends what do you think?? Enyeama has proved to be one of the best goal keepers in the world.. but His sluggish midfielders[mikel] & ineffective attack [musa] denied the team the glory the deserved..
Kudos to the coach Keshi
Kudos to osase
Kudos to enyeama
Kudos to se..