A new study shows that obesity weighs more heavily on women that men.

Duh! We could have told researchers that, right, ladies? Men can grow old, fat and bald and still be considered valuable but we are always supposed to stay young, supple and thin.

Anyway, rant over. Now back to the issue at hand.

The study, conducted by Dr. Peter Muennig of Columbia University, and reported by Reuters found that being overweight cost U.S. women 1.8 million years of perfect health, compared to just 270,000 years lost for men. Obesity cost women 3.40 million years of perfect health, compared to 1.94 million years for men.

"To me what makes more sense is that there's just a lot more social stigma associated with being overweight amongst females, and that that causes a lot more stress and distress," Muennig said. "There's evidence showing that high levels of stress can increase your risk of morbidity and mortality."

Check out the full article on Yahoo! News.

-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com