Researchers found that people with bigger bellies are at greater risk for life threatening conditions, regardless of BMI. A few people may be in an ideal BMI and weight yet carry a lot of fat in the abdomen. “There’s the apple shape as opposed to the pear shape, there’s a muffin top, there’s a beer belly”.
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The study challenged the assumptions that BMI is associated with higher mortality risk.
Where did the story come from?
A few researchers argue fatness does not affect health as long as you are fit, which means your heart and lungs are strong. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Although it’s not clear from this study how many people might fall into this category, he added.
What kind of research was this?
What did the research involve? Apparently they had greater chances of surviving into old age. (They had to go back to those years because the survey has since stopped measuring hip size.) The data included not only body measurements, but also demographic and health information. Finally, divide your waist size by your hip size: “Waist (in inches) / Hips (in inches) = ratio”. After an average follow-up of 14 years, just over 3,200 deaths occurred. According to the World Health Organization, men have “central obesity” if their waist-hip ratio is 0.9 or more. And the data is worse for men with a spare tyre; they were twice as likely to die than men defined as obese by their BMI.
In addition to lower survival rates, those with a “spare tire” had a higher diabetes risk, higher levels of blood fats and inflammation. And, normal weight men with bigger bellies seemed to fare even worse than slender women with more tummy fat.
The study found that normal weight male with more fat around the waist had an 87 percent increased risk of death during the study period compared to a man who was normal weight without extra belly fat. As part of this, the way their body fat was distributed across their bodies was looked at, with deaths assessed via records, and it was determined that there is a link between central obesity and early death.
For example, the National Institutes of Health’s Body Weight Planner calculates that a 40-year-old woman who weighs 90kg requires a little more than 1 000 calories (4.18 kilojoules) to be cut from her daily diet to lose 18kg in six months.
He says that the findings suggest that normal-weight persons with central weight obesity should consider a few lifestyle changes and other preventative strategies.
Multiple studies have looked at fitness and obesity as two separate entities because they are seemingly separate concepts: one measures how well your heart and lungs work to supply oxygen to your muscles while the other is a measure of your body height and weight.
It’s common knowledge by now that obesity causes a range of health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and earlier death. The results were less strong for women.
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Monday’s study signals the distribution of fat matters whatever the scale says.
