New York, February 2 -- With rising obesity rates, heart disease will take toll of about 4,00,000 overweight people in the United States, revealed a new study.
The study carried out at the University of Liverpool established that nearly half of these deaths could be evaded if people move towards healthier diets and give up smoking.
Shanthi Mendis, an expert on chronic disease prevention at the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) said that obesity rates in the United States have been alarmingly high and by 2015 they will plunge to 1.5 billion.
