Obesity has long been linked to heart disease and high blood pressure. If you think about it, this is an understandable fact of life: The heart and other vital organs are designed to support and maintain a person of normal weight. But once you add an extra 50, 75 even 150 pounds, it’s like driving your car with an extra 3 tons of bricks in the trunk. Over time, the engine is going to wear out from the added weight it has to carry.
Shedding pounds has been shown to dramatically reduce the odds of experiencing a heart attack and a bevy of other life-threatening health crises. Read more…