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...frequently cited dangers--diabetes, stroke, heart disease, sleep apnea and joint problems among 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...
...asking ourselves whether we're going about things all wrong. It's not the number on the scale or the size of your khakis that will kill you, after all; it's the elevated blood pressure and cholesterol and other nasty problems that come with moving to the relaxed-fit rack. If you eat well, work out regularly and walk away from your doctor's office with straight A's on your physical, what does it matter if you can't wriggle into slim-cut jeans...
...idea that being a string bean is the best thing to be is too simplistic," says David Jacobs, professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. "I think it's possible to be large and fit...
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...