Fit and fat: Study shows it's possible

But not this study.

"It may be possible to be both fat and healthy, researchers reported on Monday, for at least half of overweight adults, and close to a third of obese men and women, have normal blood pressure, cholesterol and other measures of heart health...

They found just over 51 percent of those who were overweight, and 31.7 percent of those who were obese, had healthy levels of cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and other measures linked to heart disease.

These measures have been shown in many other studies to predict heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and other heart disease, although this particular study did not look at whether people suffered any of these problems."

Oops.

Seems as if you would want to know if the fat people developed "these problems" before suggesting they are "healthy" or "fit."

(BTW, fitness is different from health. Equating the two is an error.)

And, in fact, according to the study:

"In all weight categories, risk factors for heart problems were generally more common in older people, smokers and inactive people. Among obese people who were 50 to 64, just 20 percent were considered healthy compared with half of younger obese people."

So, with the passage of time, these "risk factors," which were claimed "normal" at a younger age in fat people, became "abnormal" and even more prevalent.

This still puts fat people at a higher risk.

Nor did this study look at other illnesses more highly associated with fat people, e.g., cancer, sleep apnea, etc.

Or the effects on their children, e.g., nutritional child abuse, birth complications, etc.

The research is unfit.

And so are fat people.