FAT BUT FIT
Scientists believed that excess body fat was mere storage for unused
calories. However, research conducted over the past 20 years suggests
added fat is more than a little extra cushion.
In 1998, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a guidelines and in it said that if you are overweight but good physically you will not die earlier.
But in 2015 the International Journal of Epidemiology did a study and said that what NIH said about "fat but fit" wasn’t true. Compared to physically fit obese men, normal-weight men who were not physically fit had a lower risk of dying.
Abdominal obesity, which is fat centralized in the belly, is a sign of
high levels of visceral fat in the body. Visceral fat is the type of fat
that accumulates in arteries and around organs, and has been credited
with increased inflammation and disease risk.
Another study saidd that it is a myth. It said that
If you are overweight, a study suggests that even doing lots of exercise will not prevent an early death. Researchers say it is far more important to be slim, even if you are unfit. For years experts have believed it is possible to be ‘fat but fit’ and still relatively healthy. This led to some heavier adults assuming a few extra kilos did not matter as long as they took regular exercise.
In conclusion, exercise does a body good, but new research suggests it does less good for obese bodies. Swedish scientists launched a massive study to try and find out whether being highly fit can mitigate the risk of early death that comes with obesity.
