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Health .. American researchers: fat can become fitness
Excessive physical activity and improved fitness are the best for weight loss.
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Overcoming health problems related to being overweight depends more on hard work and exercise than reducing calories, US health researchers said.
Although excess weight contributes to diabetes and heart disease, a strict diet is not the answer to the threefold increase in obesity and the increase in related diseases worldwide since the mid-1970s.
In terms of restoring health and reducing the risk of death associated with being overweight, "it appears that more physical activity and improved fitness are best for weight loss," the researchers reported in a study published in Cell Press.
"Fat can be fitness," said Glenn Geyser, of Arizona State University's School of Health Solutions.
"Fitness and healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes," he added, which brings some reassurance to the nearly two billion people around the world who are overweight, and the World Health Organization classifies 600 million of them as obese.
The authors of the study said that walking, cycling or jogging is more beneficial than reducing calories or the so-called “yo-yo diet”, in which obese people lose weight quickly to gain it also quickly “and it is linked to health problems, including muscle loss and disease.” Fatty liver and diabetes,” and this does not include genetic factors for weight, metabolism and body shape.
"Body weight is a largely genetic trait, and weight loss is associated with fundamental changes in metabolism that ultimately impede maintenance of weight loss," said Siddhartha Anjadi, of the University of Virginia.
The authors of the study believe that it is better to bear the pain, sweating and shortness of breath caused by running a long distance.
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Overeating The “fat can become fitness” hypothesis comes after a team led by Harvard Medical School scientists recently said that obesity in the United States is largely caused by eating certain processed foods, not by overeating.
Glenn Geyser: "Fitness and healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes."
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