Is it possible to be obese and healthy at the same time?

Eating greasy food, sitting for long periods of time and lack of exercise, obesity can be said to be a common civilization disease among modern people. The Journal of the American College of Cardiology recently published a new study from the University of Birmingham in the UK. The research team said that based on the experimental results, it may be difficult to maintain good health while being obese.

According to the experimental results, although some obese people are metabolically healthy obese, that is, although their weight exceeds the standard, they do not show metabolic abnormalities such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other related symptoms, compared with the metabolically healthy people with normal weight, these obese metabolically healthy people still have a higher incidence of heart failure, cerebrovascular disease and coronary artery disease.

The author states that metabolically healthy obesity is not a state that is harmless to the body, and concepts such as "obesity can also be healthy" may mislead the public.

The study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 70, No. 12, pp. 1429-1437

This article is from ELSEVIER Global Pharmaceutical News