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Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Facts about Fat and Heart Fitness
Being fat is not something to be ashamed of, but it is something to be scared of, because of the proven link between obesity and heart disease. The United Kingdom is getting significantly heavier – more than 66 percent of adults are overweight or obese, and over the past ten years, the number of obese six-year-olds has doubled while the number of obese 15-year-olds has tripled. And that’s not the end of the bad news – 33 percent of adults, 20 percent of boys and 33 percent of girls are expected to be obese by the year 2020. These statistics reflect on our current lifestyles, and are definitely not a good sign for the nation’s heart health, what with the rising incidence of heart disease being connected to obesity, smoking and diabetes, all interlinked conditions.
In the meantime, a new study conducted by doctors from Germany and Switzerland claims that fat people are likely to live longer after a heart attack. They based their study on a group of 1,676 patients who had unstable angina or had suffered a heart attack between 1996 and 1999. The European Heart Journal reports that of the group, 9.9 percent of those in the normal weight category, 7.7 percent in the overweight category, and 3.6 percent in the obese category, died. But not a single person categorized as extremely obese died.
The reason for this miraculous survival? Well, according to the team of doctors, the fatter people were more likely to respond to the drugs prescribed to control cholesterol and blood pressure. Besides, they had a higher level of cannabinoids, cannabis-like compounds, in the brain, which help in the dilation of blood vessels and reduction of blood platelet counts, both of which are protect the heart.
So is this a faint ray of hope at the end of the obesity tunnel? Does this mean that fat people are not at risk for heart attacks any more? No, not at all – in fact, the lead doctor of the study cautioned overweight people against taking this report literally and putting off losing weight, because, all said and done, it is true that being obese decreases your life span by 9 years. And if your heart attack kills you as it most likely will, there’s no point in rejoicing that you’re fat enough to survive after the attack.
So get moving today, start working out to shed those excess pounds which could very well turn out to be your death knell.
In the UK, two thirds of adults are now overweight or obese. In the past ten years obesity has doubled in six-year-olds and trebled among 15-year-olds
Heavy matters
— A third of adults, a fifth of boys and a third of girls will be obese by 2020
— Obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of nine years
— Obesity doesn’t happen overnight: it takes about 3,500 excess calories to gain only 1lb (0.5kg)
By-line:
This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of Online EKG Programs (http://www.ekgclasses.org). She invites your questions, comments and freelancing job inquiries at her email address: sarah.scrafford25@gmail.com.
Editor's note - this article was contributed with no evidence to base the facts given
In the meantime, a new study conducted by doctors from Germany and Switzerland claims that fat people are likely to live longer after a heart attack. They based their study on a group of 1,676 patients who had unstable angina or had suffered a heart attack between 1996 and 1999. The European Heart Journal reports that of the group, 9.9 percent of those in the normal weight category, 7.7 percent in the overweight category, and 3.6 percent in the obese category, died. But not a single person categorized as extremely obese died.
The reason for this miraculous survival? Well, according to the team of doctors, the fatter people were more likely to respond to the drugs prescribed to control cholesterol and blood pressure. Besides, they had a higher level of cannabinoids, cannabis-like compounds, in the brain, which help in the dilation of blood vessels and reduction of blood platelet counts, both of which are protect the heart.
So is this a faint ray of hope at the end of the obesity tunnel? Does this mean that fat people are not at risk for heart attacks any more? No, not at all – in fact, the lead doctor of the study cautioned overweight people against taking this report literally and putting off losing weight, because, all said and done, it is true that being obese decreases your life span by 9 years. And if your heart attack kills you as it most likely will, there’s no point in rejoicing that you’re fat enough to survive after the attack.
So get moving today, start working out to shed those excess pounds which could very well turn out to be your death knell.
In the UK, two thirds of adults are now overweight or obese. In the past ten years obesity has doubled in six-year-olds and trebled among 15-year-olds
Heavy matters
— A third of adults, a fifth of boys and a third of girls will be obese by 2020
— Obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of nine years
— Obesity doesn’t happen overnight: it takes about 3,500 excess calories to gain only 1lb (0.5kg)
By-line:
This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of Online EKG Programs (http://www.ekgclasses.org). She invites your questions, comments and freelancing job inquiries at her email address: sarah.scrafford25@gmail.com.
Editor's note - this article was contributed with no evidence to base the facts given
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