Slowly the faith that associates fatty with Good health; However, a recent study ended up destroying any related idea, finding that despite this exercise Regularly, the negative effects of overweight corporal on heart health.
This is the main conclusion of a paper published on Thursday in this magazine European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, fromEuropean Society of Cardiology.
Research refutes the idea that a Lifestyle physically active can cancel completely harmful effects of overweight and obesity, explains Alejandro Lucía, from European University of Madrid, which emphasizes: “You can’t be fat, you can be healthy“.
The study used data from 527 thousand 662 workers in Spain, with an average age of 42 years and 32 percent of 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: revenly activeS, defined as those that make the minimum recommended for adults by World Health Organization; insufficiently active (some moderate to vigorous physical activity each week, but less than the WHO minimum); and inactive (no exercise).
Cardiovascular health was determined based on the three main ones heart attack risk factors: Diabetes, el high cholesterol and hypertension.
About 41% of the participants were normal weight, 41% were overweight and 18% of the people were obese. Most were inactive (63.5 percent), while 12.3 percent were underactive and 24.2 percent were active on a regular basis.
Thirty percent had high cholesterol, 15 percent had high blood pressure and 3 percent had diabetes, explains a statement European Society of Cardiology, which details that the researchers studied the associations between the body mass index (BMI) of each group and the activity and the three risk factors.
In all BMI levels, any activity (whether or not it met the WHO minimum) was associated with a lower likelihood of suffering Diabetes, hypertension A high cholesterol, compared to the absence of exercise.
“This tells us that everyone, regardless of body weight, should be physically active to protect their health,” says Lucía.
In all weights, probabilities of diabetes and hypertension decreased as physical activity– More activity is better, so walking 30 minutes a day is better than walking 15.
However, participants with overweight and obesity presented a increased cardiovascular risk than their normal weight peers, regardless of activity levels.
For example, compared to inactive individuals of normal weight, active obese were about twice as likely to have high cholesterol, four times more likely to have diabetes and five times more likely to have high blood pressure.
“Exercise does not seem to compensate for the negative effects of excess weight,” concludes this researcher, who points out that the findings were generally observed in men and women.
For Lucia, ” fights obesity And inactivity is just as important; it should be a common battle. Weight loss should remain a major goal of health policies, along with the promotion of active lifestyles. ”
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