Science has already shown that both obesity and lack of physical activity are harmful to cardiovascular health and healthy aging. However, recent research has compared what may be more efficient for longevity and avoiding disease: respiratory heart fitness, fitness, or weight loss.
According to TicketAnd published in November last year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, fitness is more important to avoid both cardiovascular disease and deaths for all causes of the BMI (IMC).
At work, the researchers found that individuals in the figure, with various body mass index, have similar risks to death for all causes or Cardiovascular diseases. On the other hand, those who were outside the shape, that is, were stable, and had risks higher than two to three times of deaths and heart disease, regardless of IMC, compared to people in shape and a natural body mass index.
In addition, the study also found that people with obesity who maintained a level of physical activity and fitness had a much lower risk of death compared to individuals with a natural body mass index.
“It seems that physical fitness is more important than body fat when it comes to the risk of deaths,” said Sidhathha Anjadi, an associate professor of physiology at the Faculty of Education at the University of Virginia and Human Development and an author of an interview in a statement. “Our study found that individuals with obesity were the risk of death similar to the risk of normal individuals and about half of the risk of normal individuals.”
“Exercise is more than just a way to burn calories. It is an excellent” treatment “for improving public health and can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and death by all causes in all sizes.
How was the study conducted?
For study, the researchers reviewed 20 works with a total sample of 398,716 adults from different countries. About a third of the participants were women, an increase of nearly three times compared to previous studies.
In most studies, individuals are classified as fit if they put their voltage testing degree above twenty in the age group.
“I think this study will help in strengthening the growing literature group on the discussion” versus fat, “says Nathan Wilderer, a doctorate in grape movement and participated in the study. Our study, which has the largest and most represented by the international sample so far, along with a more strict statistical analysis compared to the previous research, aims to change views on the relationship between fitness and fat in the body, “he adds.
Physical activity reduces obesity risks, but weight loss is still important
According to Marsio Mansini, Director of Pharmachematology at the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and metabolic syndrome (ABSO), physical activity brings a number of health benefits, reduces obesity without clinical and can risk the disease brought by health. However, it is repeated that it is necessary to treat the disease.
“It is important to reduce the body mass index, because it is difficult to achieve good heart fitness in patients with a very high body mass index,” Mancini, who did not participate in the study, warns.
Including treatment for obesity This should be accompanied by lifestyle changes, including physical activity and healthy eating.
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