Gradually the belief associated with the fat with the good health; however, a recent study ended up destroying any related idea, finding that despite doing so exercise regularly, the negative effects of the overweight corporal on the heart health.
This is the main conclusion of a paper published this Thursday by the magazine European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, From the SEuropean Society of Cardiology.
Research refutes the idea that one lifestyle physically active can completely override the harmful effects of excess weight and the obesity, Explains Alejandro Lucía, of the European University of Madrid, Which emphasizes: “You can’t be fat, but healthy“.
The study used data from 527,000 662 workers in Spain, with an average age of 42 years and 32 percent women.
Participants were classified into normal weight (With a body mass index of 20-24.9), overweight (25-29.9) and obesity (30 or higher).
In addition, they were grouped by activity level: requally actives, Defined as those that make the minimum recommended for adults by the World Health Organization; insufficiently active (Some moderate to vigorous physical activity each week, but less than the WHO minimum); i inactive (No exercise).
the cardiovascular health was determined based on the three main ones heart attack risk factors: the diabetes, el high cholesterol and the high blood pressure.
Approximately 41 percent of participants were normal weight, 41 percent overweight and 18 percent of people were obese. Most were inactive (63.5 percent), while 12.3 percent were underactive and 24.2 percent were regularly active.
30 percent had high cholesterol, 15 percent high blood pressure and 3 percent diabetes, according to a statement from the European Society of Cardiology, Which details how the researchers studied the associations between each body mass index (BMI) group and activity and the three risk factors.
In all BMI levels, Any activity (whether or not it met the WHO minimum) was related to a lower likelihood of suffering diabetes, high blood pressure O high cholesterol, Compared to the absence of exercise.
“This tells us that everyone, regardless of their body weight, should be physically active to safeguard their health,” Lucia summarizes.
In all weights, the probabilities of diabetes and hypertension decreased as the physical activity: More activity is better, so walking 30 minutes a day is better than walking 15.
However, participants with overweight i obesity presented a increased cardiovascular risk than their normal-weight peers, regardless of activity levels.
For example, compared to inactive individuals of normal weight, the active obese they were about twice as likely to have the high cholesterol, Four times more likely to have diabetes and five times more likely to have high blood pressure.
“Exercise does not appear to compensate for the negative effects of being overweight,” concludes this researcher, who notes that the findings were generally observed in both men and women.
For Lucia, “the fight against obesity and inactivity is equally important; it should be a joint battle. Weight loss should remain a primary goal of health policies, along with the promotion of active lifestyles. ”
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