04/16/2018 / By Jessica Dolores
There’s no such thing as healthy fat. This was the conclusion University of Glasgow’s Dr. Stamatina Iliodromiti and his team arrived at after they studied 296,535 adults of white European descent. Dr. Iliodromiti and his team found that adults whose body mass index (BMI) was around 22 to 23 have lower risk of developing or dying from heart disease.
The study also revealed that the risk of developing heart disease rose by 16 percent in women and 10 percent in men each time they gained 12.6 cm and 11.4 cm respectively around the waist. The risk for developing heart disease rose as well when researchers looked at waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratios and body fat percentage.
Study co-author Professor Naveed Sattar added that losing a few kilos improves health, and that there are no downsides in purposely losing weight. The findings come on the heels of reports from experts that junk food like pizza, ready meals, cakes and crisps (chips) raise the risk of cancer, which kills 162,000 Britons a year. Danger also lurks in sugary snacks, cereals, and reconstituted meat products with high sugar levels, fat and salt without vitamins and fiber, pre-packaged bread, store-bought desserts, meatballs, chicken nuggets and artificially sweetened drinks.
Studies also show that a 10 percent rise in “ultra-processed foods” is linked to a 12 percent increase in cancer risk. Cancer Research UK warned that next to smoking, excess weight is the biggest preventable cause of the disease.
Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation, further said, “The findings from this study contribute to the overwhelming evidence (that) there is no such thing as healthy obesity. Being obese increases a person’s risk of developing heart disease, even if they are otherwise healthy.”
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