Word: fatted
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...them--but also with many less frequently cited ones, such as cancer. A recent study of 135 men, published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation, seems to confirm this, acknowledging that while getting fit is associated with reducing a number of health risks, failing to tackle the fat problem is linked to many more. "Even if the overweight person doesn't have signs of disease," warns AHA cardiologist Gerald Fletcher, "they will develop them...
...culture that fetishizes slimness, the idea of being fat and happy raises eyebrows. The idea of being fat and fit is nothing short of apostasy. Yet Bliss is both--and she's not alone...
...buffet lines everywhere. Not surprisingly, the public largely overlooked the study's more important point--that obesity still cuts lives short. But even as the public seized on the slim hope that there really might be a free lunch, the experts have also begun questioning the received wisdom that fat is wholly anathema to good health...
...every expert who is worried that the last thing fat people need is one more excuse not to get thin, there are hints that the problem is in fact more nuanced than that. One is a study that comes from the nonprofit Cooper Institute in Dallas. Since the 1970s doctors there have been amassing a database of the more than 80,000 patients who have passed through their doors to be weighed, measured, pinched, blood-tested and to run on treadmills while their vital signs are monitored. Drawing on that rich lode of data, the institute concluded that overweight...
More common, if less headline making, than the fat-and-fit are people who are very heavy and not terribly healthy but at least improving. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study of 116,000 women and reported that lean but sedentary subjects had a 55% greater chance of dying prematurely than lean and active ones. Fat and active women were worse off still, with almost twice the risk of the lean-and-actives, and fat and sedentary women were worst of all, at nearly 212 times the risk. That's not the rosy picture the Cooper...