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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My Doctors are not quite onboard yet with what I am doing but I think time will tell. I wish they were a bit more knowledgeable on HFLC diets.
I'm comin' over to your house to eat.
For non-weightlifters, BMI is OK to use for studies. For actual medical advice, the human eyeball can measure fat just fine.
Given how easy it is to eat Keto with intermittent fasting, I really don't know why everyone doesn't do it. And it really is the only diet I know that works.
Yes, if you're a fatty you have a lot of health problems....
Or, if you have a lot of health problems, you are a fatty....
I explained to my doctor (and a nutritionist at my health club) about Keto and autophagy/fasting (Yoshinori Ohsumi got the Nobel in Medicine on that subject in 2016) and he (and she) had never heard of it.
Going to Coachella and having random sexual encounters with hip hop and EDM skanks will increase your risk of herpes.
“I wonder how much a “scientist” could get to do a study for that.”
Herpes, if they are not cautious?!
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I would note that Arnold has been lying about his height for a long time. I know several people who have met him and he is not quite 6 foot tall. They both said they were taller than him and they are both 6 ft. This reinforces the point you made re: BMI obesity.
In the article it only mentions BMI and what percentage of the population falls into where on the BMI measurement so it looks as if BMI is the only metric that they used. Completely inaccurate way of looking at obesity in a population IMO.
I will say one thing, weight does play a factor in one sense. As you get older (I would say over 50) you should probably slim down. You can have 8 percent body fat, but if you have guns like Arnold it’s not good as you get older. Reason being is that you can enlarge your muscles, but your tendons and bones don’t grow. As you get older, your bones get more brittle and your tendons are not as flexible. Your bones are only designed to carry so much weight so as you get older, if you continue to look like Arnold you are putting yourself at risk for knee and hip injuries/deterioration. As someone told me a long time ago, those giant arms are not going to walk for you when you are old.
Correct, but only going by what was published officially when he won Olympia
LOL, you’re like Garfield...
The general rule of thumb is that fitness is 70% dieting and 30% exercise. However, for me, I've noticed it is much easier to maintain a good diet if I am actively exercising. Further, monitoring calories most definitely will work. To lose weight you need to maintain a caloric deficit. No other way. The easiest half of that is calories in - a potato has the same amount of calories for everyone. Calories out is a much trickier matter. There are a bunch of variables which dictate how many calories any given person burns. Your metabolism is what burns the most calories for all of us but that varies tremendously from person to person. Increasing your metabolism is the most efficient way to maximize calories out. Increasing your cardio and your muscle mass will increase your metabolism. I've been doing this long enough that I don't have to count every calorie. Just minimize the high calorie foods - starchy carbs, whole milk and dairy, sugar and processed foods. I used to fast one day a week but not so much any more. However I've maintained a high lever of fitness for many years so it's a bit easier for me now.
Thus the old gym adage that "you can't out exercise a bad diet."
Yep.
Not that I ate all that crap... but it is amazing just how efficient our bodies are; all the exercise in the world isn’t going to thin me down if I eat and drink as much as I want to.
It is amazing the number of people I’ve met who argue the basic physics of diet. No matter WHAT, assuming that a ‘calorie’ is actually an accurate measure of the energy in the food, (and not the marketing), you simply can’t gain weight without consuming more calories than you burn, and simply will lose weight if you burn more calories than you consume. As much basic physics as holding a brick out at arm’s length and letting go; it *WILL* drop as long as there is nothing between it and the ground and you are on the earth.
Several years ago during my annual physical...at least where I go, the 1st 2 things they do is check weight then blood pressure. I know just walking 30 to 40 feet will elevate a person’s BP. When the nurse checked mine I was somewhere around 138/88. During the physical, the Doc said I had pre-high blood pressure. I said...Doc, I have a pre amputated arm and I’m also I’m pre-dead. Man....he didn’t see any humor in my snappy comeback. :-)
For example, a carbohydrate (i.e., starch) calorie is used quite differently by the body than a calorie of protein or fat. And, for that matter, calories of carbohydrates vary considerably in the way they are used by bodies.
Here is an excellent video that gets into this subject (Dr. Fung gets into the "calorie theory" in the first few seconds of the video).
Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'
I think I misunderstood your comment when I responded to it previously. Sorry.
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