Fit Is Simply Not Enough If You Are Fat
Being fit but fat is simply not good enough. Excess weight can take years off your life, even if you get plenty of exercise. This was the finding of a study published in 2004 in New England Journal of Medicine.
The study was based on questionnaires used in the Nurses? Healthy Study, which followed more than 116,000 female nurses for 24 years, and on death certificates and medical records.
Women who were active but obese had almost twice the risk of death of women who were both active and lean. Women who were sedentary but slender were 55 percent more likely to die early. Those who were both sedentary and obese were almost 250 percent more likely to die.
 
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