A recent study shows the importance of your BMI when it comes to your health goals. https://www.muscleandfitness.com/fe...tudy-says-you-cant-be-overweight-and-healthy/ We all love our sports, and great athletes come in all different shapes and sizes. From lean swimmers and long-distance runners to beefy football players and even sumo wrestlers, the notion that you can be obese but fit is an idea accepted by many as fact, but research recently published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology says otherwise. An extensive study conducted in Spain, using data collected from more than half a million working adults, with an average age of 42 years, sought to understand just what an individual’s body mass index (BMI) means to the likelihood of suffering diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol in those that exercise versus those who are inactive. On the positive side, the results appear to show that as physical activity increases, the chances of diabetes and hypertension lowers, illustrating a favorable link between working out and improving overall health. However, those individuals who were overweight or obese still suffered from a greater risk of negative cardiovascular outcomes as opposed to both active and inactive people within their normal weight range. The research also showed that active, but obese, people were twice as likely to have higher cholesterol than inactive but normal weight individuals. On top of that, they were four times more likely to develop diabetes, and five times more likely to suffer high blood pressure. “This was the first nationwide analysis to show that being regularly active is not likely to eliminate the detrimental health effects of excess body fat,” said study author, Dr. Alejandro Lucia of the European University in Madrid. “Our findings refute the notion that a physically active lifestyle can completely negate the deleterious effects of overweight and obesity”. The findings mean that although exercise will improve the health of an individual regardless of their weight, it is not possible to ignore excess body fat as a risk factor and try to compensate for it by becoming more active. The risk to health associated with obesity cannot be cancelled out. “Fighting obesity and inactivity is equally important; it should be a joint battle. Weight loss should remain a primary target for health policies together with promoting active lifestyles,” said Dr. Lucia. “One cannot be ‘fat but healthy.'”
Moral of the story. Keep your fat level down and your activity up if you want to stay healthy over the long term.
If he got paid by the word he'd sit for hours typing tomes of text, which would cause fat-buildup. He is trying to stay healthy over the long-term.
The idea that someone can be overweight and healthy has been lingering for some time. There have been lots of public declarations of “self-acceptance” by overweight people (meaning they choose not to do anything about it and so it’s okay). And so, the relatively recent research puts the lie to such notions. It’s really not okay. Sure, people should accept themselves, but not their excess baggage. Fat shaming is uncouth. Fat normalization is unhealthy. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/can-you-be-overweight-and-still-be-fit
Bs. I mean what you say might be true regarding what people say and write about... but show me a fatty over 90 years old. Even 85 for that matter. As B1 said... "they have to do a study for the obvious?" Height matters too I think. You don't see a lot of folks north of 6'-3" in their 90's. I guess we shrink, but still. Short skinny dogs seem to live the longest in the doggy world. For whatever that's worth. Mammals are mammals.
Always hilarious. It really is. It's not cool to shame fat people who try to lose weight. In fact we should be encouraging them. But watching tubs of lard try to justify they feel good having to take a breather going up half a flight of steps is hilarious. Actuarial tables don't lie. Who cares what the regressives think.