4 Your Health: Extra body weight may impact brain

Maintaining a normal weight may not be enough to avoid obesity-related illness.
A new study reveals a large waist size can also increase the risk of early death.
Researchers from the University of Iowa tracked over 150,000 postmenopausal women for 20 years.
Women who had a normal BMI, but high waist size were 31 percent more likely to die than those with low belly fat.
The two leading causes of death were cardiovascular disease and obesity-related cancer.
Extra body weight may impact brain
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