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Tuesday 22 Dec 2015 - 15:24 Makkah mean time-11-3-1437
Umea, Sweden (IINA) - A new study found that obesity cancels out the benefits of being at high aerobic fitness, indicating that thinner people who do not have an exercise routine have better health than fat people who exercise daily, UPI reported.
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden sought to find whether the negative health effects of obesity could be canceled out by increasing fitness levels, based on both being associated with death at older ages.
The study analyzed data from 1.3 million Swedish men followed from 1969 to 1996, with aerobic fitness measured by an electrically braked cycle test and causes of death tracked using Swedish national registers.
Researchers found, based on a mean follow-up of 29 years, 44,301 people died, with men in the highest fifth of aerobic fitness showing a 48 percent lower risk of death from any cause, as compared to the lowest fifth of men.
The researchers stressed that the strongest associations seen for death were alcohol and narcotics abuse, however, risks associated with weight and fitness were similar. Aerobic fitness was associated with reduced risk for death in normal and overweight men and the benefits of fitness were lower in obese men.
It is noteworthy that unfit normal-weight men also were seen to have a 30 percent lower risk of death from any cause than obese men.
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