It's so strange that people like you can be presented with the most easy questions ever, with the most obvious answer and tons of proof to back it up, and still pick the dumbest possible choice.
Being obese is more of a strain on your heart than being slim. Even if the slim person is eating crappier food being obese is over working your heart. You will have more issues with your heart when you are elderly.
And look this up, one of the best measures for heart risk is measuring your waist to height ratio. Also being obese puts you at higher risk for diabetes and joint pain etc.
When you read the word "obese" you're thinking "mobility scooter at Walmart" when you should be thinking "average American person".
I'll just quote an article since it words this better than I could:
"Steven Blair is professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina. He describes the official focus on obesity as an "obsession ... and it's not grounded in solid data".
Blair's most fascinating study, in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2007, took 2,600 people aged 60 and above, of various degrees of fatness, and tested their fitness on the treadmill, rather than asking them to quantify it themselves. This is an unusually rigorous approach, he claims, since many rival surveys ask participants to assess their own fitness, or ignore it as a factor altogether. Proper tests, Blair suggests, demonstrate no hard and fast link between excess weight and increased mortality.
"There is an 'association' between obesity and fitness," he agrees, "but it is not perfect. If you look at the normal-weight men and women aged 60 and older, for example, about 90% are fit as demonstrated by a 'maximal exercise' test in the laboratory. This is not asking them if they're fit, or guessing that they're fit – they've proved it on the treadmill. As you progress towards overweight, class I obesity and class II obesity, the percentage of individuals who are fit does go down. But here's a shock: among class II obese individuals [with a body mass index, or BMI, of between 35 and 39.9], about 40% or 45% are still fit. You simply cannot tell by looking whether someone is fit or not."
But doesn't that only prove that some fat people can hold their own on the treadmill? Not at all, Blair says. "In all of these studies, we typically see higher rates of mortality, chronic diseases, heart attacks and the like, in people with high BMI – we see the same thing that everybody else sees. But when we look at these mortality rates in fat people who are fit, we see that the harmful effect of fat just disappears.
"If we look at individuals who are obese and just moderately fit – we're not talking about marathon runners here – their death rate during the next decade is half that of the normal weight people who are unfit. So it's a huge effect." "
There you have it! Now you know that a fit obese person is better off than an unfit average weight person. Though I know you'll keep responding, people who read this comment can now know that you are spreading misinformation and to not listen to what you say. Goodbye! :)
On harvards own website it says "The idea that someone can be "fat and fit" — that is, overweight but still healthy — has been around for some time. But don't be fooled."
There's been many studies that indicated the opposite of that study you posted. You sound like you believe this is a consensus amongst all doctors and researchers but its not. There's a lot of doctors that disagree with that study you cited including harvard. There's been dozens of studies that indicated the opposite of that study you posted.
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It's so strange that people like you can be presented with the most easy questions ever, with the most obvious answer and tons of proof to back it up, and still pick the dumbest possible choice.
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Being obese is more of a strain on your heart than being slim. Even if the slim person is eating crappier food being obese is over working your heart. You will have more issues with your heart when you are elderly.
And look this up, one of the best measures for heart risk is measuring your waist to height ratio. Also being obese puts you at higher risk for diabetes and joint pain etc.
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When you read the word "obese" you're thinking "mobility scooter at Walmart" when you should be thinking "average American person".
I'll just quote an article since it words this better than I could:
"Steven Blair is professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina. He describes the official focus on obesity as an "obsession ... and it's not grounded in solid data".
Blair's most fascinating study, in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2007, took 2,600 people aged 60 and above, of various degrees of fatness, and tested their fitness on the treadmill, rather than asking them to quantify it themselves. This is an unusually rigorous approach, he claims, since many rival surveys ask participants to assess their own fitness, or ignore it as a factor altogether. Proper tests, Blair suggests, demonstrate no hard and fast link between excess weight and increased mortality.
"There is an 'association' between obesity and fitness," he agrees, "but it is not perfect. If you look at the normal-weight men and women aged 60 and older, for example, about 90% are fit as demonstrated by a 'maximal exercise' test in the laboratory. This is not asking them if they're fit, or guessing that they're fit – they've proved it on the treadmill. As you progress towards overweight, class I obesity and class II obesity, the percentage of individuals who are fit does go down. But here's a shock: among class II obese individuals [with a body mass index, or BMI, of between 35 and 39.9], about 40% or 45% are still fit. You simply cannot tell by looking whether someone is fit or not."
But doesn't that only prove that some fat people can hold their own on the treadmill? Not at all, Blair says. "In all of these studies, we typically see higher rates of mortality, chronic diseases, heart attacks and the like, in people with high BMI – we see the same thing that everybody else sees. But when we look at these mortality rates in fat people who are fit, we see that the harmful effect of fat just disappears.
"If we look at individuals who are obese and just moderately fit – we're not talking about marathon runners here – their death rate during the next decade is half that of the normal weight people who are unfit. So it's a huge effect." "
There you have it! Now you know that a fit obese person is better off than an unfit average weight person. Though I know you'll keep responding, people who read this comment can now know that you are spreading misinformation and to not listen to what you say. Goodbye! :)
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On harvards own website it says "The idea that someone can be "fat and fit" — that is, overweight but still healthy — has been around for some time. But don't be fooled."
There's been many studies that indicated the opposite of that study you posted. You sound like you believe this is a consensus amongst all doctors and researchers but its not. There's a lot of doctors that disagree with that study you cited including harvard. There's been dozens of studies that indicated the opposite of that study you posted.
https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness/fat-but-fit#things-to-remember
Dont take it personal I'm not trying to attack your world view or anything.