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Obesity resulted in as much as 47 percent more life-years lost than tobacco, and tobacco caused similar life-years lost as high blood pressure, new research has shown.

Obesity is top cause...

At first glance, it looks like a "disease of abundance" but that is also wrong-headed thinking; it is really the result of malnutrition, as we all know.

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Results highlight the clinical and public health achievement of smoking cessation efforts because 15 years ago, tobacco would have topped the list.

"Modifiable behavioral risk factors pose a substantial mortality burden in the U.S.," said Glen Taksler, Ph.D., internal medicine researcher from Cleveland Clinic and lead author of the study. "These preliminary results continue to highlight the importance of weight loss, diabetes management and healthy eating in the U.S. population."

With "sugar as the new tobacco" we have an even worse situation, because this can start at infancy, or before. Western civilization and increasingly, Eastern civilization too, are all dying of what we might call Processed Food Disorder.