"The preferred mouse sugar to cocaine": a study confirms the links between obesity and disease and premature death

New study confirms that obesity increases the risk of illness and premature death.

The study involved 2.8 million adults in the UK over an 18-year period. The study found that obese people are more likely to have heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and irregular heartbeats.

Obesity is defined as a body mass of 30 or more – or 30 pounds or more overweight.

The study found that people whose body mass index ranged between 30 and 35 were 70% more likely to have heart failure. And those with a BMI of 30 to 35 are five times more likely to get type 2 diabetes.

The study, funded by Novo Nordisk in Denmark, also found that the more overweight a person is, the higher the risk of contracting an illness.

"The number of people suffering from obesity having almost tripled in the world during the last 30 years (105 million people in 1975 to 650 million in 2016), our results have serious consequences for the public health", has said the author of the study, Christiane Haase, in a report on ITV .com.

On Monday, CBN News' correspondent for health, Lorie Johnson, talked about ways to improve health and combat sugar cravings that contribute to the obesity crisis.

"They did studies on mice, and mice preferred cocaine to sugar, it's addictive," Johnson explained. "It gets into your brain, as well as dopamine receptors and pleasure centers."

"Just like other drugs, you have to undergo a period of withdrawal for a certain period of time, but the good news is that after three or four days, a week, two, three weeks, you stop." "So much," she said. "We need to replace sugar and processed foods with fiber." Click on the video above to learn more about how to beat sugar addiction.