Thin people may be fat insideOK, I have the utmost respect for science in general, and medical science in particular, but it's stuff like this that makes holistic medicine, homeopathy, and other such quackery sound appealing. Yes, yes, yes, everything is lethal, everything will kill us. Let's fret about every last nanogram of fat in our bodies. What's next: "Not being sick doesn't automatically mean you're healthy"? "Being alive doesn't automatically mean you're not not dead"? It's amazing that the human race survived for hundreds of thousands of years. Y'know, my grandmother lived on a diet of basically butter and she lived to be 99.
Some doctors now think that the internal fat surrounding vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas — invisible to the naked eye — could be as dangerous as the more obvious external fat that bulges underneath the skin.
"Being thin doesn't automatically mean you're not fat," said Dr. Jimmy Bell, a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College, London.
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"The whole concept of being fat needs to be redefined".
I'm going for a hamburger...
2 comments:
The point of the article was that physical activity, not just being thin, is what's really important in staying healthy. So being thin but sedentary is not good.
Most people think that heart disease is "caused" by high cholesterol, which is wrong. In fact, high cholesterol is fourth on the list. Statistically, it's actually quite weak. Activity and not smoking are far more important.
Go have that burger!
As far as your butter-loving grandmother, she sounds like she was on Atkins before he "invented" it! Butter has an undeserved bad rap.
This link is interesting as well
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3356
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