Mainly the Fat Die Young

Yes. It’s true, kind of: Mainly the fat die young. Also, those who enjoy more than three drinks a day or have high blood pressure are much less likely to live as long as those who don’t. Forbes reports on a study that followed 5,820 Japanese-American men for nearly 40 years
to determine how well lifestyle factors in middle age can predict
healthy aging. The magazine tells us that researchers at the Pacific Health Research Institute in Hawaii found that middle-aged men who avoided risk factors
such as obesity, heavy drinking and high blood sugar or hypertension
were more than five times more likely to be alive and healthy at age 85
than those who didn’t. According to Forbes, men with six or more risk factors at age 54 had only a paltry 22 percent chance of still being alive at age 85, and a downright pitiful 6 percent chance of
making it to age 90 outside of a coffin. Read more in Forbes.