Why obese and overweight people should be vigilant about air quality

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Why obese and overweight people should be vigilant about air quality

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/why-obese-overweight-people-vigilant-air-quality-155513782.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rELOrGubTJX9.JgCDKHRcg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/shutterstock_38.1d4ff204024.original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Why obese and overweight people should be vigilant about air quality" align="left" title="Why obese and overweight people should be vigilant about air quality" border="0" /></a>People who are overweight and obese may need to add air quality reports to their daily weather checks, as a new study has found that they may be more vulnerable to breathing in air contaminants that can trigger asthma and other respiratory diseases. Published in the international journal Risk Analysis, the study out of the University of Montreal found that obese and overweight people take in between seven to 50 percent more air than their slimmer counterparts. Obese individuals, for instance, had the highest average air inhalation, breathing in 25 cubic meters of air a day -- about 8 cubic meters more than the average adult of normal weight That also translates to breathing in more air pollutants like ammonia, sulphur dioxide, ozone and nitrogen dioxide -- all respiratory irritants.</p><br clear="all"/>

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