The Health Risk of Healthy Obesity.
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Jun 21 2018
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Everyone knows that carrying excess weight can be unhealthy. It causes a number of health problems such as heart disease, stroke and certain types of cancer. But like many issues regarding health, there’s no real consensus on the dangers. Some sources claim that so called ‘healthy obesity’ may not be as problematic for good health as previously thought. If true, this could revolutionize how society thinks about excess weight and health. However, just because obese people don’t show signs of certain health disorders, doesn’t mean they aren’t at higher risk of others. So if you want to understand the real risk of that excess weight, you need to fully understand all of its effects on your body.
Obesity causes a number of problems that can affect your long term health and even threaten your life. However, not everyone suffers from these types of problems. Sometimes, people with extra weight don’t develop any of the metabolic disorders that are usually associated with obesity. This includes diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia or high cholesterol levels. This is a condition known as ‘metabolically healthy obesity’. People who are described this way don’t develop the health conditions that make obesity so medically dangerous. But that doesn’t mean that their obesity isn’t a health risk, and it shouldn’t be taken that way.
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is one of the most serious health threats in the world at the moment. It refers to a variety of diseases that affect the heart and the blood vessels leading to the heart. This includes coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, cardiac arrest and congestive heart failure. CVD can have a variety of causes, but one of the most important is obesity. This causes health problems that are strongly connected to CVD such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels.
People with healthy obesity don’t usually have any of these side effects of obesity. This is why people have claimed that obesity isn’t necessarily a health risk if other factors aren’t present at the same time. But according to recent research, this may not be true. In fact, researchers say now that healthy obesity may lead to the same health problems over the long term as other types of obesity.
A recent study examined the long term health of female participants from a number of studies on metabolically healthy obesity. They followed up on these participants over 30 years, examining their metabolic health, BMI and CVD status. Other factors that could influence CVD events, such as family history, activity levels and smoking and drinking habits were accounted for in the research.
The results were extremely interesting. To start with, they highlighted the importance of metabolic health, proving that participants who were metabolically unhealthy but in the healthy weight range had a markedly increased risk of a CVD event. Their risk of a CVD event was 2.5 times higher than metabolically healthy women.
However, women with metabolically healthy obesity had a much higher risk of CVD events, 39 percent higher than healthy participants. 84 percent of these women also developed a metabolic disorder over the course of the study, compared with 68 percent of women in the healthy weight range. And obese women who avoided developing a metabolic disorder had a 57 percent higher chance of CVD than metabolically healthy women who maintained a healthy weight.
The results of the study proves that obesity is never harmless. It might not cause metabolic diseases immediately, but it increases your risk of developing them over time. And it also increases your risk of CVD regardless of your metabolic health. That’s why it’s so important that you work to maintain a healthy weight to lower your overall health risk over the long term.
Obesity is never healthy, no matter what health trends say. Maintaining your metabolic health and your overall health is already difficult. Trying to do it when you suffer from the health problems associated with obesity is even harder. So if you’re carrying excess weight, you need to focus on improving and supporting your health. This means adopting diet and exercise habits that eliminate excess weight while still giving your body the support and nurturing it needs to heal. This isn’t an easy process. Making changes that work for your body and lifestyle can be complicated. That’s why monitoring is so important during this process. It will help you understand what works for you and what doesn’t. And it will make you aware of any potentially dangerous symptoms so you can seek professional help as soon as possible.
If you’re concerned about your weight, HomeLab can help you keep track of the results of any changes you make. And if you see signs of a significant health risk, you should check with your doctor as soon as possible.
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