Weight vs Metabolism = Healthy?

topic of the day 035 & article of the day 040

"Fat but Fit?"

What? Who?

"Now a new study, believed to be the largest of its kind, suggests that even when overweight or obese people are free of health complications, they are still more likely to develop heart disease than their peers who aren’t overweight."

How? Why?

"It didn’t matter whether obese people were free from diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, a condition sometimes referred to as “metabolically healthy obesity.” As long as they were obese, they were at modestly higher risk for having a stroke, at nearly 50 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease and had nearly double the risk of developing heart failure than people who were not overweight and in similar metabolic health.
People who were metabolically healthy but considered merely overweight were at a 30 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease compared to their normal weight and metabolically healthy peers.
The bottom line is that metabolically healthy obesity doesn’t exist. Obesity is not a benign condition."

Then? So?

"The lack of information about fitness and exercise was an important caveat though. People aren’t trying to gain weight. They’re not trying to get to be obese. A better message would be to tell people that if they get themselves to be more physically active, they can improve their prognosis, despite carrying a few extra pounds. That’s a better message, and a more obtainable message.
Obesity itself is a metabolic disorder. If you have these metabolic abnormalities you’re at higher risk of disease, and you may need more intensive lifestyle modifications — not to lose weight, but to improve health. Metabolic health is important regardless of your weight."
~ nytimes

In conclusion?

While one study focuses on how obesity itself isn't considered healthy in general, the other study focuses on the level of metabolism and how active they are and they both show that an educated understanding of your own condition i.e. weight, metabolism or any medical condition should be the at the utmost importance and not just follow what all the others are doing around you.
Focus on yourself and yourself only.

Lesson Learned:

Healthy obesity doesn’t exist; obesity is not a benign condition. For those who are not obese, please keep in mind your own metabolism level despite your adequate physique.

source: nytimes -> r/science