Is it possible to be both fat and fit?
This is the latest debate in the medical world. If you take a little exercise,eat reasonably healthily and avoid too much alcohol, your blood pressure is normal and you have no signs of any ill health, some researchers say that there is no need to worry. They feel that it is possible for some people to carry large amounts of fat yet still be healthy.
Other researchers say that of you are overweight you can still be putting your heart at risk, no matter how healthy you feel you are. They calculated that even if you are overweight and healthy your risk of contracting heart problems is still higher than it should be.
However,just to confuse matters,a US study found that being overweight was not a cause of premature death, but being underweight was! A Danish study also found that obese stroke patients were less likely to suffer subsequent strokes than their underweight counterparts, and a stroke was far less likely to kill them. Obesity also, is not necessarily connected with insulin resistance or a build up of fats in the arteries. A build up of fat around the internal organs is far more dangerous, and also a lot less visible. So an underweight person may have fatty deposits around the liver, whereas an overweight person could be fine.
Maybe the answer lies in genetics, but either way it would be good to find out your family history, which could be a good indication of how your body may be working on an inner level.
As always, there are a lot of factors involved and this new information isn’t carte blanche to binge.