Fat, Yet Fit
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Is there such a thing as being fat, yet fit? Can fat people get away with overeating by keeping their muscles trained and strong? The Mayo Clinic says they can’t. It seems that even though one exercise daily or frequently those extra pounds will still mean trouble. Fat is simply not good especially for the heart.
The big question was: can overweight people stay healthy by working out on a regular basis? It sounded like a legitimate question because exercising just fifteen minutes every day makes a tremendous difference for fat people. The effect that it gives is lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels also go down, leaving the person in question in a better mood because of the extra energy. One might almost say that it’s not that bad to be fat if you’re feeling great and you’re heart is not threatening to split your chest and jump out every time you go up a flight of stairs.
However, the experts from the Mayo Clinic say that being overweight is a risk factor for many health conditions and that exercises simply make you healthier for the moment. Exercises cannot lower the risk of developing diabetes later on and are not a surefire way of preventing heart problems. Whether you’re exercising or not, those extra pounds have got to go.
On the other hand, an interesting result of these studies was the fact that all those people that don not perform and form of exercise regardless of their weight suffer from the same problems or similar. Our body can handle a certain amount of physical endurance per day even though it can be increased. Simply maintaining a healthy weight without regular exercise is not enough. You have to get off the couch and start on some brisk walks. There is nothing out of the extraordinary to keep yourself healthy, you only need thirty minutes a day, for five or six times a week just pause the movie for a while or turn off the TV and keep yourself healthy.
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on 5/8/2008
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