15 years of research have allowed European scientists to come to the following conclusion: the risk of obese people get cancer or suffer from heart disease is not higher than people of normal weight. Many people tend to be overweight at the gene level, but it has no effect on their well-being and health in general.
Doctors wishing to determine whether the weight of the medical problem is usually calculated body mass index (BMI). Scientists do not much trust in this indicator, since no distinction is made between fat and muscle mass. It turns out that the mast can be considered even some athletes.
According to the German researchers, BMI should only be considered only if factors such as blood pressure and waist circumference. You also need to pay attention to it, in what areas is the accumulation of fat.
However, a healthy diet and physical activity, while no one cancels. Experts warn that not all obese people who do not have health problems today, can keep it for years, if they do not try to follow the rules.
Head of the Fund of the weight problems, Dr Ian Campbell, said that the results of the research sound very promising for obese people, but do not forget that there is always a risk, and that problems could arise later.
