A study was published today (Aug. 15) in the Journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism adding more evidence to the idea that health cannot be measured by weight.
"It's "absolutely" possible for people to be overweight or obese and healthy, said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a general internist at Cambridge Health Alliance."
The researchers from York University in Toronto studied data from about 6,000 obese, middle-age Americans for 16 years who attended a health clinic in Dallas between 1987 and 2001. The participants were assessed by a physician for health complications. They also answered questions about their physical activity level, fruit and vegetable intake and past weight loss efforts.
The study was working on categorizing the stages of risk for obesity and came up with some surprising findings.
In this study, Stage 0 to 1 - were participants who were healthy, ate fruits and vegetables and were PHYSICALLY ACTIVE and LESS LIKELY to engage in weight loss practices. In this stage 0-1 group the obese individuals were LESS likely to die of cardio-vascular disease than their normal weight counterparts. "This illustrates that you can't have one sweeping brush to categorize all obese individuals," said study researcher Jennifer Kuk, an assistant professor at York University in Toronto. People need to look at whether they have additional risk factors indicating poor health to determine whether they should lose weight, Kuk said."..."In fact, the results suggest that yo-yo dieting, in which individuals lose weight but gain it back later, might be more unhealthful ".."than simply maintaining their weight, Kuk said."
Check out more about this study in this article from msnbc.com:
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"It's "absolutely" possible for people to be overweight or obese and healthy, said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a general internist at Cambridge Health Alliance."
The researchers from York University in Toronto studied data from about 6,000 obese, middle-age Americans for 16 years who attended a health clinic in Dallas between 1987 and 2001. The participants were assessed by a physician for health complications. They also answered questions about their physical activity level, fruit and vegetable intake and past weight loss efforts.
The study was working on categorizing the stages of risk for obesity and came up with some surprising findings.
In this study, Stage 0 to 1 - were participants who were healthy, ate fruits and vegetables and were PHYSICALLY ACTIVE and LESS LIKELY to engage in weight loss practices. In this stage 0-1 group the obese individuals were LESS likely to die of cardio-vascular disease than their normal weight counterparts. "This illustrates that you can't have one sweeping brush to categorize all obese individuals," said study researcher Jennifer Kuk, an assistant professor at York University in Toronto. People need to look at whether they have additional risk factors indicating poor health to determine whether they should lose weight, Kuk said."..."In fact, the results suggest that yo-yo dieting, in which individuals lose weight but gain it back later, might be more unhealthful ".."than simply maintaining their weight, Kuk said."
Check out more about this study in this article from msnbc.com:
http://on.msnbc.com/oMHAN8
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