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Overweight/obesity and physical inactivity are each responsible for nearly 1 in 10 deaths in the US, with obesity causing 216,000 and inactivity 191,000 deaths.
Maintain a healthy body weight and stay physically active. These two factors are responsible for nearly 20% of all adult deaths combined, making them critical targets for health improvement.
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Overweight–obesity (216,000; 188,000–237,000) and physical inactivity (191,000; 164,000–222,000) were each responsible for nearly 1 in 10 deaths.
Why this rating
Based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of epidemiological studies.
Source
Correction: The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors
Goodarz Danaei et al. · PLoS Medicine · 2011
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