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Two out of three Americans have an ongoing battle of the bulge, and most know all that extra weight can contribute to life-threatening ailments such as stroke, diabetes and heart disease. But just how many years will the fat take from you?
A new study shows for the first time how much life expectancy is shortened for those who are overweight or obese at 40. For smokers, the statistics are even worse.
"If you're overweight, you basically live three years less ... and if you're obese, you live approximately six to seven years less," says Dr. Robert Eckel with the American Heart Association. Scientists have long known that overweight people have shorter life expectancies, but few large-scale studies have been able to pinpoint how many years they lose.
The study by Dutch researchers appears in Tuesday's edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. It looks at data collected from 3,457 adults age 28 to 62 in Framingham, Massachusetts, between 1948 and 1990.
So what's the difference between overweight and obese? Doctors use body mass index -- BMI -- to measure the ratio of weight to height.
A person with a BMI of 25 or over is classified overweight, and a BMI of 30 or over means one is obese.
For example, a 40-year-old woman who is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds is considered overweight, with a BMI of 25. She can expect three years cut from her life expectancy, according to the study. If that same woman weighed 180 pounds, her BMI would be 30, she would be considered obese and would lose seven years.
Men are hit almost as hard. A 6-feet-tall man who weighs more than 184 pounds is considered overweight. If he weighed 221 pounds, he would be obese and could expect to lose six years.

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Obesity in adulthood and its consequences for life expectancy: a life-table analysis.

Years of life lost due to obesity.

Being fat at 40 cuts years off life

Body mass index: a measure for longevity.