Health Myth
By:Lexi,Radhika,Hauwa and Nicolett
A skinny body type does not equate to a healthy body type.
Research
- After researching about this we saw that even the more average people are more fit and healthy than skinny body type.
- We even saw that some doctors said that even average or more people are fit and maybe even sometimes more fit.
They may appear trim on the outside, but still carry too much visceral fat (fat that's stored in the abdominal cavity and around important internal organs such as liver,pancreas , intestines and many others) and not enough muscle on the inside. They’re not physically active. They have horrible and restrictive diets.
Example
"Skinny is Healthy"
- Most people seem to believe the myth “skinny is healthy”
- Being skinny doesn’t necessarily mean you are healthy. it means you are under lean and over fat or the term doctors use metabolically obese normal weight.
- Study shows that four out of ten skinny people are pre-diabetic and that being fat and healthy is better than being skinny and unhealthy.
Risks
Being slim might decrease your risk of chronic disease but it doesn’t mean you’re invisible and there aren’t any health issues,a person can be thin and have high cholesterol. if you are a skinny fat person and get diagnosed with diabetes, you have twice the risk of death than an overweight person with diabetes.
There are many health issues many skinny people face specifically the underweight women with a BMI less than 19, those women might develop brittle bones, less bone mass, osteoporosis, fertility issues, and hearth disease.
More Research.....
- Within our society, people that believe that individuals that carry more weight are more at risk for illnesses. Such as dealing with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, etc.
- Rather than doctors, these statements are developed by health professionals who define overweight as in having a BMI percentage between 25.0-29.9.
- Further research shows that BMI can be inaccurate. According to Harvard Health Publication Doctor Hu, she stated, “Further exploration of metabolically healthy obesity could help us fine-tune the implications of obesity, It supports the idea that we shouldn’t use BMI as the sole yardstick for health, and must consider other factors.”
- It may not be common, but it is possible to be overweight and be metabolically healthy. Having a good amount of physical exercise, normal blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and good diet can be make anyone healthy despite their body type.
Study done about this Myth
- In a new study by U.S. and European researchers, published in the European Heart Journal, overweight and obese people were found to be at no greater risk of developing or dying from heart disease or cancer, compared with normal weight people, as long as they were metabolically fit despite their excess weight
- Another study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in early August added evidence called obesity paradox finding that among people already diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, those who were obese lived longer than their thinner peers.
- In a second study published in the current issue of the European Heart Journal, researchers looked at nearly 65,000 patients with heart disease and found that overweight and obese people had the lowest risk of early death, compared with normal-weight or underweight patients; those who were underweight had the highest death risk.