Let’s assume the siblings are identical twins. If that’s the case, then the one who doesn’t exercise and eats fast food is certainly more likely to be overweight and have a heart attack, though it’s still not 100%.
Like I’ve said before, nobody is saying that morbid obesity is healthy, but we don’t all need to look like formless broom sticks in order to be healthy. We need to focus more on **health** and less on appearance because appearances can be very deceiving.[/quote]
Please stop putting words in my mouth and proceed to debate against said word. It’s what one would call a straw man argument.
I never said we all need to look anorexic, bulimic, or other eating disorder. Like you constantly repeated, we need to focus more on health. Guess what, there have been countless studies that prove that when you become overweight, your risk of getting certain type of disease increase. It doesn’t mean your risk goes to 100% and you’re 100% likely will get those disease. However, it has proven that you’re more likely to get those disease compare to if you’re average weight.
So, going back to my identical twins example, I NEVER said the brother who eat badly and don’t exercise have 100% chance of being fat and have 100% of getting a heart attack. If you reread my post carefully, you’ll see that I asked who’s MORE LIKELY to be fat and who’s MORE LIKELY to get a heart attack. Increase likelihood is FAR from 100%.
Again, I hope you can tell the difference between probability of getting sick vs probability of staying alive after you got the sickness. This new article you posted show that fat people fare better than skinny and normal weight counter part who also have heart disease. But, let me ask you, what’s the % of fat people getting heart disease vs % of skinny and average weight people getting heart disease. How about diabetes? This is where the “increase risk” of developing health problem statement comes from. It’s not that you’re guarantee that you’ll get these disease when you’re fat. It’s just that you’re more likely to develop these disease compare to if you’re normal weight.
Also, your article stated this:
‘However, there appears to be a sub-set of obese people who seem to be protected from obesity-related metabolic complications. ‘Our study suggests that metabolically healthy but obese people have a better fitness level than the rest of obese individuals. ‘We believe that getting more exercise broadly and positively influences major body systems and organs and consequently contributes to make someone metabolically healthier, including obese people. ‘In our study, we measure fitness, which is largely influenced by exercise.’
‘Our data support the idea that interventions might be more urgently needed in metabolically unhealthy and unfit obese people, since they are at a higher risk. This research highlights once again the important role of physical fitness as a health marker.’
So, the way I read that is, not all fat people are unhealthy, but nowhere in that article did I see someone say obese people on average are more healthy than average weight people. It said not all obese people are predisposition to getting chronic diseases.
Let me ask you a few simple questions, how do you think one gets fat? It’s it not a simple equation of caloric intake vs caloric expense? Doesn’t excess calories get stored as fat? Which scenario would make you more healthy, scenario a, where you consumes more calories than their exercise and daily activity can expend, so you store that as fat. Or scenario b, where you reduce you caloric intake to a point where it’s even with your expense so there’s nothing left to store as fat.
