Posted on 04/29/2019 5:15:01 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
Being obese is linked to a significantly higher chance of serious disease and early death than being a healthy weight, research on more than 2.8 million adults suggests. The chance of suffering serious illness goes up with increasing weight gain, experts analysing health, death and sickness data from UK adults found. How much does the risk increase as your BMI rises? Presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Glasgow, the study found that people with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 to 35 were at 70% higher risk of developing heart failure than their healthy weight peers. Even a BMI of 25 to 30 increased the risk by 20%, while a BMI of 35 to 40 more than doubled the risk and a BMI of 40 to 45 almost quadrupled the risk compared to people of a normal weight. The study also found that compared with normal weight individuals, a BMI of 25 to 30 increased the risk of Type 2 diabetes and sleep apnoea by more than double, while a person with a BMI of 30 to 35 was more than five times as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes and almost six times as likely to develop sleep apnoea. his BMI was also linked to a 50% higher risk of dying prematurely from any cause compared to people of a normal weight. Credit: PA For those with a BMI of 35 to 40, the risk of Type 2 diabetes was almost nine times higher, and 12 times higher for sleep apnoea. People with severe obesity (BMI of 40 to 45) were 12 times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes and had a risk of sleep apnoea that was 22 times greater.
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Agreed. The health insurance adjustment sounds great to me.
I lift 3 times a week, and I do hill sprints. People look at me like I’m a nut job. (I might be a little) I’m in great shape, especially for a man in his 40’s.
If you eat mostly vegetables/some fruit and chicken/fish/eggs, you don’t need to fast or count calories.
bingo. no wheat no dairy no sugar no booze = trim
How many obesity-related illnesses are a result of the types of diets that make people overweight to begin with? Heavy on the sugar, starches, processed foods, and chemical God-only-knows-what formulas. We all knew growing up that delicious but sketchy stuff was for occasional consumption only.
What government defines as food these days [and then funnels into school lunch rooms] IS downright sickening.
Obesity Government dietary advice significantly increases risk of serious disease and early death.
Yep.
Arnold competed at 6’, 1.5” and 235lbs
Skinfold calipers are really the only way to go (unless you have access to the really sophisticated stuff). I have an electronic unit and it’s garbage as far as a percentage, but accurate relative to itself from measurement to measurement.
Of course. We are talking about distributions here. But in my experience, studying the outliers is can be very informative in learning the causes of a systemic problem. Many engineers will ignore outliers simply because they are outliers, but in many cases the outliers are your best friend. So, WHY was Churchill able to live to 90 with a crappy lifestyle? In this case, I suspect the answer is pretty easy.
I ran 15 miles a couple of days ago. The number of calories burned was just a hair more than a double bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a shake.
Call me crazy, I could be wrong, but I also heard this rumor that smoking meth isn’t too healthy as well. Now where’s my grant money?
Many DO try but are getting really bad advice on how to do it. There has been remarkable research in the last 10 years on how bad high carbohydrate (and sugar) diets are for people. Even as recommended by the US Gov.
I am KETO and am doing great.
Exercise though if you do it a lot, the weight falls off fast as hell. 20 years ago I was unemployed and a friend asked me to help him in his landscaping business, Monday thru Saturday, and no joke in 2 months I lost 50 pounds. People thought I had AIDs lol. But that was real ass busting work, 12 hours a day raking lawns, digging up trees, cutting lawns, raking up grass clippings and I didnt change mu eating habits at all, matter of fact I was drinking a lot as well.
my neighbor would tell you “because they deserve it”
If they use the BMI approximation (tape test OR height/weight ratio), this article is falsely premised. If they use the immersion test, which differentiates lean mass, they may have something.
“BMI is a garbage metric.”
Agree!!
That stupid chart says I’m too short!
My BMI is around 22 but because I am lifting, I don't look like a skeleton.
Just had steak and eggs for breakfast and will probably have a spinach salad with almonds, raw broccoli, and a scoop of tuna salad (with Ken's Blue Cheese dressing) for early dinner (around 3 pm).
When I started Keto, the weight (fat) dropped off so fast it was scary.
Love it.
Oh really? LOL
The BMI was developed in the 1830's by a mathematician who came up with a simple formula to estimate 'fatness' in the days before computers and calculators. It's an estimate and it over and under-estimates fatness depending on a number of factors, e.g., height, muscle, etc.
How could BMI be based on somatotyping? Sheldon didn't propose the concept until the 1940's - 100 years later.
Very encouraging, thanks.
For me too, weight came of easily without hunger, counting calories or cravings. I fast 1 day a week for now.
Good stuff.
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