Obesity To Be More Healthier Than Being Slim

Obesity To Be More Healthier Than Being Slim

In this world of modern lifestyle people often prefer to be slim and fit. Not specifically on the basis of health but also due to the fact of attractiveness people want to be thin.

Obesity or being overweight has always been related to major health problems. People consider being obese as a path to an early grave. Surely over weight have ended into health issues like diabetes and heart problems. But they do not prove to be a particular reason for such problems also.

Studies now also prove that being slimmer does not make you healthy as compared to being obese.

Obesity To Be Metabolically Healthy

Researchers claim that nearly half of the fat people are just as healthy as slim people and at no more risk of developing heart problems or cancer. The research found that it is possible to be fat and “METABOLICALLY HEALTHY“.

Metabolically Healthy Obesity(MHO) is where a person is overweight but shows no worrying changes in metabolism that might predict future complications such as type 2 diabetes, heart problems and stroke. Fat but healthy people tend to be more female as well as young.

Researchers also say doing exercise can offset the dangers of being obese. Studies proved that some fat people manage to remain metabolically healthy even though their body mass index would suggest they are not.

They have less risk of dying prematurely than unhealthy obese people and up to half of the risk of developing or dying from heart disease or cancer.

Many research suggest that, among those with heart problems, those who are underweight or even normal weight are actually worse than those who are fat.

Research And Findings

Research were carried on a large number of US populations who were either over weight or obese. The researchers looked to see whether the participants had any of the four common risk factors for heart disease and diabetes: high blood pressure, high fat level in blood, low level of good cholesterol or elevated blood sugar level.

Among those who were obese, 10 percent did not have any of the four conditions. Several factors could explain why some obese people remain healthy. Diet and exercise surely played a role, but new studies could not find these factors, according to the researchers.

In addition, the distribution of a person’s fat can also affect their risk of cardiovascular disease, with fat stores in the belly area  posing a great risk to health than fat found just beneath the skin in other part of body.

Ultimately, future studies are needed to see whether these people remain healthy over a long period of time or even a lifetime.