Posted on 10/04/2020 8:42:12 AM PDT by daniel1212
A lack of exercise could be killing twice as many people as obesity in Europe, a 12-year study of more than 300,000 people suggests.
University of Cambridge researchers said about 676,000 deaths each year were down to inactivity, compared with 337,000 from carrying too much weight.
They concluded that getting everyone to do at least 20 minutes of brisk walking a day would have substantial benefits.
Experts said exercise was beneficial for people of any weight.
Obesity and inactivity often go hand in hand.
However, it is known that thin people have a higher risk of health problems if they are inactive. And obese people who exercise are in better health than those that do not.
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, attempted to tease out the relative dangers of inactivity and obesity.
Researchers followed 334,161 Europeans for 12 years. They assessed exercise levels and waistlines and recorded every death.
"The greatest risk [of an early death] was in those classed inactive, and that was consistent in normal weight, overweight and obese people," one of the researchers, Prof Ulf Ekelund told BBC News.
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In addition, research has found that Obesity increases risk of Covid-19 death by 48% .
that as a result of a three-month lockdown, many more people could become obese, from almost 98,000 to 434,000, putting them at high risk for future disease.
And so the all-ages shutdown and saves lives in the long term, versus fostering exercise and health?
Obesity causes inactivity.
Double-barrel death risk.
Like smoking was 50 years ago, today inactivity & obesity are BY FAR the lowest hanging fruit in life quality/expectancy and stress on the healthcare system.
Those little old ladies one sees outside every day, wearing their house dresses while sweeping each individual leaf into a dustpan seem to live a long time.
One good thing about working from home is that it allows me to go for a 20-minute walk every two hours or so, I easily get in 5-10 miles a day of walking. Even got a tan, which I haven’t had in years.
Additionally I learned the difference between a comorbidity and a risk factor. Obesity and advanced age are risk factors. Diseases, like those which often accompany obesity, that affect one’s body are comorbidities. I had not realized that difference before.
Our poorest people are the most likely to obese. Also, they are the most passively entertained and the least used to strenuous physical activity of any other group of poor people ever. These are conditions like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
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You can’t make me get up and exercise. I’m stuck on this computer. I’m addicted I tell ya. I’m . I’m . . oh my heart . . ackk!!
If you think of a thick stagnant forest with mosquito infested and bacteria infest pools and puddles that are still for weeks.
Then think of a stream hurling down a rocky mountain side. Or through a forest with plenty of air, wind, space.
In one of those places, things destructive to certain forms grow. It's true that they attain their own natural form, but that form is not conducive to human life.
The ancients had it right even though they didn't understand it (and really, we still don't, but we understand much more) .... wind, fire, liquid, 'solid' ... it's counterintuitive that for anything alive (that is, anything dependent upon phenomena) to maintain it's form as life, it must move.
Movement is what preserves and maintains the form through time.
In part that translates into 'exercise' but exercise is not the key point and strenuous exercise is not even necessary.
It's movement, and the right movement.
As of May 20, with 2.43 million in America filing for an unemployment,[97] the rate was at least 20%.[98] Also, according to one meta-analysis of 42 studies involving 20 million people, the risk of death increases 63 percent when one loses their job, and that for every one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate, there are 37,000 deaths, mainly from heart attacks, but another 1,000 from suicides and another 650 from homicides.[99] All of which can mean that the lockdown measures can end up being responsible for more deaths than the Coronavirus itself, which is what a German official warns of across the globe.[100]
And as concerns just suicide, we have reports such as “Calls to suicide and help hotline in Los Angeles increase 8,000% due to coronavirus,”[102] and “Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they have seen more deaths by suicide during this quarantine period than deaths from the COVID-19 virus,”[103] In addition to which is a high increase of overdose in some places during COVID. [104] Sources.
That is really cool! You just walk around your neighborhood ?
Yes. I check my messages, if anything urgent comes up, I can quickly get back. Since now I don't have to spend 2+ hours a day commuting that time gets freed up for work, so there's still plenty of time to get the 8 hours in even with the walks.
My grandmother, who was never thin, lived well into her 90s. She also had a lifelong "high fat" diet, took snuff and had hard liquor every day.
But she was up at 4am every morning to make biscuits and gravy, mowed her lawn, did her own gardening and did other farm type chores like milking the cow, feeding the chickens and whatnot.
"Always be moving" she used to tell me.
It served her well, despite all her "bad" habits.
Indeed, and I am sure she was not really overweight. And when Scripture states "For bodily exercise profiteth little [Gk. oligos]: but Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come," (1 Timothy 4:8) it is speaking by way of comparison, with little meaning relatively little, its profit being short, vs. eternal, while this was penned to people who typically got a lot of exercise, walking most every place, and with many or most laboring in farming.
As a result of the lockdown, I’ve lost a few pounds, down to 118, my high-school weight. Why? Not doing enough to get hungry. I literally forget to eat.
I Love your grandmother. Biscuits and gravy—haven’t had them since I was a little girl. My dad loved to make them. He was the cook in our family.
You may be one of the few who only eat when they actually need to for strength, and not because the clock says so or they simply want to.
Maybe pushing for fat acceptance was a bad idea?
Well, not all overweight people are in that condition due to over eating, and nor am I necessarily a better person than those that are, but it is a cause of premature death, and
“Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!” (Ecclesiastes 10:17)
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