I don’t know whether it should be surprising. A study funded by the National Institutes of Health concludes that your risk of death rises steadily with every overweight pound you gain,.
Even if you don't smoke and are in otherwise good health, your risk of death goes up 31% with every 5-point increase in BMI, a measure of body mass based on weight and height.
The study pooled data from 19 long-term studies that followed 1.46 million white adults for five to 28 years.The findings appear in the Dec. 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
