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Obesity Worse Than We Thought
You don’t have to be a doctor to know obesity is bad for you; heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, all worsened by being obese.
Now experts think cardiovascular mortality from obesity could be a lot higher than previously thought.
Speculating in the British Medical Journal, researchers claim more respiratory disease and lung cancer deaths could be influenced by obesity than typically reported.
Here’s why. Severe illnesses, like lung cancer, usually cause weight loss, so at the time of death the person is not obese, which creates inaccuracies in the statistics.
Via EurekAlert!
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The first thing you must understand is that there is no physical exercise that can reduce fat from a specific part of the body. When you burn fat for energy, as during an aerobic activity, fat loss will occur systemically, i.e., from all over the body. But since fat distribution naturally varies from person to person, depending on inherited genetic factors, some people will tend to lose abdominal fat faster while others may lose fat at say hips or thighs faster. So do not compare your abdominal fat loss graph with others.