According to a study on obesity and death, excess weight or obesity makes men face a greater threat of premature death than women, according to foreign media reports. Scientists say that although they are not sure of the specific reasons behind this, the study shows that obese men are more likely to suffer from diabetes and fatty liver. The report was published in the medical journal The Lancet, and the authors of the article said obesity is second only to smoking as the leading cause of death in Europe and North America. The findings are the result of 189 global studies that researchers investigated in relation to this category, which involved nearly 4 million people. Overall, the researchers found that the heavier a person is, the higher his or her risk of death. And among them, the relationship between obesity and death was even greater in men. For example, in North American men, for example, a normal-weight man had a 19 percent chance of dying by age 70, but the rate rose to 29 percent for obese men. In contrast, the mortality rate for a North American woman of normal weight by age 70 is 11%, but rises to 14.6% if she is overweight. In addition to obesity, smoking is the most important cause of premature death, a quarter of premature deaths are caused by smoking, as long as stop smoking, can immediately reduce the rate of premature death by half. It is reported that every seven premature deaths in Europe, there is currently one because of obesity, the proportion in North America is one fifth. At the same time, the data also show that being underweight also increases the risk of premature death. But the researchers also pointed out that the accuracy of the study needs to be improved, because the subjects were both smokers and people with chronic diseases themselves. Many gay men still have misconceptions about obesity “that weight loss is just a sign of beauty”, but in fact obesity can cause three high, diabetes, coronary heart disease, fatty liver, sleep apnea syndrome, hyperlipidemia, polycystic ovary syndrome and a series of diseases. If you have overweight friends around you who are losing weight, you should give them more encouragement.