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It’s important to be thin and fit not just fit


The study results are in. If you want to reduce the risk of dying before your time, fat but fit isnt the way to go. Ditto for being slender but not fit. Fat and sedentary is the worst combination, of course. Lean and fit is the best way to live out your years. Sounds logical, especially in view of all the recent hand-wringing about rising obesity rates. Nevertheless, whether exercise can overcome the risk of being overweight has been controversial, until now.

Early in 1999, Steven Blair, director of research at the Cooper Institute of Aerobics in Dallas, opined that fit and fat appears to be good enough. In the men who are overweight or obese, but also moderately or high-fit, we don’t see much increase in the risk of dying, he told Nutrition Action Health Letter.

Exercise and Being Active is Very Important

Its important to be thin and fit not just fitThere has been some suggestion that if you are particularly active, you don’t have to worry about your bodyweight, about your diet, Dr. Frank Hu, lead author of the new study from the Harvard School of Public Health, told the Associated Press. That’s very misleading.

The Harvard study was large and impressive, encompassing approximately 2.7 million person-years. The researchers followed 116,564 female registered nurses for 24 years. The nurses were 30 to 55 and healthy when the study began in 1976. The nurses, all non-smokers, were monitored for physical activity and body mass. During the course of the study, 10, 282 died: 2370 from cardiovascular disease, 5223 from cancer, and 2689 from other causes.

The researchers found that being overweight or obese increased the risk of death regardless of the level of physical activity. Exercise helped, but did not overcome the higher risk of death associated with being fat.

Obese women who did brisk walking or other more rigorous activity three-and-one-half hours or more per week were, nevertheless, almost twice as likely (91 %) to die as those who were both active and lean. Slender but inactive women were 55% more likely to die. Those who were both sedentary and obese were almost two and one-half times more likely to die.

Women who were both lean and physically active had the lowest mortality, the researchers reported.
Being physically active did not cancel out the increased mortality of overweight, Dr. Hu stated.

Applauding the Harvard study, Dr. Timothy Church of the Cooper Institute of Aerobics Research told the AP: If you’re lean but you’re sedentary, don’t fool yourself. You’re still at risk. You need to get physically active.

Thin and Fit?


Clearly, the best way to live to a ripe old age is to watch what you eat and exercise.

There has been some suggestion that if you are particularly active, you dont have to worry about your bodyweight, about your diet, Dr. Frank Hu, lead author of the new study from the Harvard School of Public Health, told the Associated Press. Thats very misleading.

The Harvard study was large and impressive, encompassing approximately 2.7 million person-years. The researchers followed 116,564 female registered nurses for 24 years. The nurses were 30 to 55 and healthy when the study began in 1976. The nurses, all non-smokers, were monitored for physical activity and body mass. During the course of the study, 10, 282 died: 2370 from cardiovascular disease, 5223 from cancer, and 2689 from other causes.

The researchers found that being overweight or obese increased the risk of death regardless of the level of physical activity. Exercise helped, but did not overcome the higher risk of death associated with being fat.

Obese women who did brisk walking or other more rigorous activity three-and-one-half hours or more per week were, nevertheless, almost twice as likely (91 %) to die as those who were both active and lean. Slender but inactive women were 55% more likely to die. Those who were both sedentary and obese were almost two and one-half times more likely to die.

Women who were both lean and physically active had the lowest mortality, the researchers reported.
Being physically active did not cancel out the increased mortality of overweight, Dr. Hu stated.

Applauding the Harvard study, Dr. Timothy Church of the Cooper Institute of Aerobics Research told the AP: If youre lean but youre sedentary, dont fool yourself. Youre still at risk. You need to get physically active.

Clearly, the best way to live to a ripe old age is to watch what you eat and exercise.


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Smoking Effects On Health


It is well known that there are many negative smoking effects on health. Nicotine is a poison and other substances in the inhaled smoke can have a bad effect on the lungs too. In fact, the downside of smoking is so significant that most non-smokers have trouble understanding why anybody would smoke at all.

Smoking Effects On Health

Smokers who are not interested in quitting will usually ignore these effects, saying that their health is okay right now and they will quit at some unspecified time in the future. So it is not usually possible to persuade somebody to quit by telling them all of the bad things that may happen. It is not even useful, because it only makes them anxious so they want a cigarette to calm them. Besides, people need to be strongly and profoundly motivated in order to quit successfully. It is not enough to know the dangers intellectually.

But a smoker who wants to quit can benefit from looking closely at some of the smoking effects on health. It can be very motivational to keep a list of these side effects when you are quitting.

One of the best known smoking effects on health is lung cancer. This is a killer disease that shortens the life of many smokers and sometimes, their family members who inhale secondhand smoke. But lung cancer is not the only smoking-related cancer. Cancers of the mouth, throat and esophagus have been shown to be caused by smoking.

Smoking and Cancer

Smoking Effects On Health

Smoking Effects On Health

Smoking has also been shown to affect a person’s chances of getting stomach and colon cancer, as well as cancers of the cervix, pancreas, bladder and kidneys. This may seem bizarre because the smoke does not come into direct contact with these organs but they are thought to suffer from oxygen deprivation and the buildup of toxins in the body. Cigarettes contain nicotine, tar and many other substances that will affect the workings of the body over the years.


Smoking-related cancers can hit at a younger age than you may imagine. They are not limited to old age but often affect people in their 40s.

There are other smoking effects on health that will be important to younger people too. One of the most significant is the effect on the sexual organs. This can affect fertility in both men and women, as well as reducing sexual pleasure and contributing to male dysfunction. Smokers as young as 35 are 50% more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than non-smokers.

It is well known that if a woman smokes while pregnant, the fetus is likely to be affected. Babies are often smaller, with a weaker immune system. This may also happen if the woman has to be around other people who smoke. Kids can be damaged too if they grow up in a house where the parents smoke. Their development may be slower and their general health worse, with more colds and other infections.

Smoking Effects On Health
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Smoking also affects the skin. This is due to two factors: first, the buildup of toxins that are excreted through the skin, and second, oxygen deprivation. The result is that the skin becomes dry, wrinkled and old-looking before its time. Smokers also tend to be less physically relaxed and the facial muscles are overly tense during smoking, leading to wrinkles. So even if a person escapes serious disease, they may be hit by other negative smoking effects on health.


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