Great article By Tammy Worth of www.cnn.com health:

In part:

Although most people agree that promoting super-skinny models as the feminine (or masculine) ideal isn’t healthy, will the opposite — accepting that being overweight or obese is fine — undermine the progress being made toward heart health?

In fact, experts have recently found that the decades-long efforts to limit one serious heart risk — smoking — is expected to pay off with longer life spans. Unfortunately, the rise in obesity will likely undercut that progress.

Can you be fat and fit?

Expert opinion is pretty much unanimous: Being overweight is bad for your health, particularly for your heart.

“Obesity is probably the only risk factor that has such a global negative impact on so many risk factors for the heart,” says Barry Franklin, Ph.D., the director of the Cardiac Rehab Program and Exercise Laboratories at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Obesity’s heart disease risk factors include high blood pressure, inflammation, metabolic syndrome, and trouble with blood-fat levels, such as higher triglycerides, low HDL (good cholesterol), and high LDL (bad cholesterol). Obesity is also associated with sleep apnea.

However, research conducted by Steven N. Blair, a professor at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, suggests that some people can be overweight and healthy. In a 2007 study, he and colleagues found that unfit people over age 60 who were of normal weight had higher mortality rates during the 12-year study than people the same age with higher body-mass indexes (BMIs) who were fit (as measured by a treadmill test).

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1. David from Early High Blood Pressure Says:
   January 8th, 2010 at 3:12 pm

   You are right.My father is overweight and he is suffering for High Blood Pressure.One one my cousin has high level of sugar in Blood.he is also overweight.I think these days even at young age obesity can lead to other diseases.Your blog is really helpful for weight watchers.
   Thanks.