https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/21/health/fat-but-fit-study-scli-intl-wellness/index.html
"While
the controversy about the precise contribution of weight versus
exercise to cardiovascular health will likely continue, to optimize
health and minimize the risk of cardiovascular disease, patients should
pay attention to both: maintaining a healthy weight and being
physically active," said Dr. Anthony Rosenzweig, chief of the cardiology
division at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a professor of
medicine at Harvard Medical School.
This is a decent study but it's only one of several now out.
ReplyDeleteThere are four ways to be: thin or fat, fit or unfit. The current evidence overwhelmingly suggests that thin and fit is best but if you have a choice between thin and unfit or fat and fit, you will do better if you are fat and fit. That has not changed.