The New England Journal of Medicine links weight loss to longer life.
We now know that weight loss reduces many of the risk factors for increased death and disease that so often accompany obesity. After weight loss, incident Type 2 diabetes in persons with pre-diabetic conditions is reduced, hypertension and dyslipidemia can be treated or controlled more easily, the quantity of visceral fat diseases, and the quality of life improves. But losing weight is not always an easy task - nor is keeping it off.
