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...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...
...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 and active people may be healthier than those who are thin and sedentary...
...fast, say other experts. For one thing, it's possible that unacknowledged weight loss is responsible for the improving health numbers. People who are very overweight often pick up or drop 10 or 20 lbs. at a time, fluctuations that get lost in the statistical noise of their overall battle with the scale. If you become physically active, it's hard not to lose at least a little more than you gained, and that little can mean a lot. Normally the greatest weight-loss benefit comes from the first few pounds you shed. A 240-lb. man who drops...
...club Schaffer attends is one of a growing number of gyms catering to plus-size patrons. Founder Rochelle Rice, who earned her master's degree in the decidedly specialized field of exercises for the overweight, knows that teaching such a clientele to get up and move is not the same as teaching the slender. "I do a lot of back work," Rice says, "because large breasts or weak posture pulls the body forward. I also do a lot of abdominal work to bring the pelvis back into alignment and shin and calf work to help with walking...
...themselves into fads, easy to latch onto and easier to drop. Perhaps the key to the fat-and-fit movement is that there is no one key. In our effort to get healthy and look great, we have created an environment so hostile to the idea of obesity that overweight people have become marginalized, giving up on their well-being and sometimes failing to show up even for such routine tests as Pap smears and mammograms for fear of being hectored about their weight by their doctors...