Can you be fat and fit?

I am not quite sure what to think about some new research that came out on Monday about the relationship of being fit but still fat. New research challenges the notion that you can be fat and fit, finding that being active can lower but not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women.

Heart disease risk was 54 percent higher in overweight active women than for normal-weight active women.

“It doesn’t take away the risk entirely. Weight still matters,” said Dr. Martha Gulati, a heart specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

It is not definitive if this is the only view. Some people do in fact say taht fit and fat is fine and healthy.

University of South Carolina obesity expert Steven Blair, a leading proponent of the “fit and fat” theory, said the study is limited by relying on women’s self-reporting their activity levels. That method is not as reliable as a more objective fitness evaluation including exercise treadmill tests, Blair said. These tests include heart-rate measures to see how the heart responds to and tolerates exercise.

In Blair’s research, overweight people deemed “fit” by treadmill tests did not face increased risks of dying from heart disease. Read the rest of this entry »

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