“Poor physical fitness correlates strongly with all-cause
mortality, and particularly with cardiovascular disease. Lack of exercise and obesity go
hand-in-hand. Fat people don’t move
around much, whereas thin people are usually on the go. So which of these—obesity or inactivity—is
the real killer?
Research from the University of Pennsylvania shows that fit
people who exercise (whether overweight or normal weight) have a lower risk of
death. These researchers emphasize that
“fat people who are fit have a low risk of death” and conclude that a huge part
of the obesity epidemic is “really a couch potato epidemic.” University of Pennsylvania, Http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/newsletter.aspx?id=1559
Hmmm, I guess I better get off my computer chair and go for a walk. How about you?
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