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Thursday, December 23, 2004The study of 116,500 women was published in the New England Journal of Medicine today. Women who were physically active but obese had almost twice the risk of death of women were both active and lean. Women who were sedentary but slender were 55 % more likely to die early. Women who were both sedentary and obese were almost 2 times more likely to die. “Being physically active did not cancel out the increased mortality of overweight. Being lean did not counterbalance the risk effect of being sedentary,” Hu said. Dr Timothy Church of the Cooper Institute, which is devoted to research on exercise and health, praised the findings. “If you’re lean but you’re sedentary, don’t fool yourself. You’re still at risk. You need to get physically active,” he said. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with obesity studies, this one only presents its findings in terms of relative risk. Still, the greatest difference appears to be for the morbidly obese (BMI greater than 40). There were rather modest differences for those in the more common BMI categories of 25 to 30, which is still considered overweight. posted by Sydney on 12/23/2004 03:38:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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