A Fat Girl's Manifesto by Cyr V. Daniel

Author:Cyr V. Daniel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

If you want to be fit, you have to give that aforementioned booty at least twenty minutes of exercise three days a week. That’s the minimum requirement. I cannot tell you the myriad places that advice shows up.

While researching this book, I became utterly convinced I need to get into an exercise program, especially since I retired a year ago from a very physical job and have been duffing it ever since. So 2014 has seen me engaging in a love-hate relationship with my treadmill. I don’t know if I will succeed in getting exercise into my daily routine, but I am really going to give it a try.

Here are some more interesting tidbits on FIB2’s relating to health. Let’s stay with Peg Rosen’s Fitness Magazine article for a minute.

Recent research suggests that being overweight or even obese may not, in and of itself, be the health threat we think it is. A 2012 study from the National Cancer Institute found that moderately obese people actually lived about 3.1 years longer than normal-weight women and men. Another study, published in the European Heart Journal, showed that when obese people are metabolically healthy—which means blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and other indicators fall within a healthy range—they are at no greater risk of dying from heart disease or cancer than those who are of normal weight.

And once again I am going to dip into Glenn Gaesser’s book, Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health. He is totally my hero, totally.

Men and women medically classified as ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’ have lower risks of lung cancer (both smokers and nonsmokers) and osteoporosis than men and women who are either thin or of average weight.

The ‘thinner is better’ studies frequently cited by healthcare professionals are far outnumbered by studies showing that—aside from the very extremes—body weight is fairly unrelated to health status and death rates or that weights above those recommended by the height-weight tables are actually better for health and longevity.

If obesity is a killer disease, as the chairman of the obesity conference told newspaper reporters in 1985, and one that affects tens of millions of Americans, then we might reasonably expect it to be implicated in atherosclerosis, or clogged arteries, which is the number one killer in America. Not only do most data fail to support that hypothesis, but few of the available data support any of the numerous hypotheses about overweight as a primary cause of any of the major diseases for which it is routinely blamed (with the exception of osteoarthritis).

Here’s a doozy from Gaesser:

…Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, in launching his ‘Shape Up America’ campaign (see CDC report on SER injuries I think to myself sarcastically)…claimed that obesity kills more than 300,000 Americans every year.

Subsequently, this statistic has surfaced repeatedly in newspapers, magazines, television, and radio broadcasts and in many scientific journals—each time proclaiming obesity the second leading preventable cause of death (next to smoking) in the United States.… What surprises me, given the gravity of the statistic, is that no one seems to have bothered to verify it.

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