Even If Health is Good, Be Weight Wise Pound Foolish!

As mentioned many times before, weight (and let me add here, waist circumference or waist-hip-ratio) does matter, whatever the professors said about being heavy and fit, yet still healthy.

Please, no matter how fit you feel or how fit you really are, if you are less than ideal, circumference- or weight-wise, do look up an editorial in American Heart Association’s Circulation, 2008, with the following title:

Healthy Lifestyle -- Even If You Are Doing Everything Right, Extra Weight Carries an Excess Risk of Acute Coronary Events by Paul Poirier, MD, PhD, FRCPC


Dr Poirier concluded: “From a public health perspective, increases in physical activity along with the establishment of healthy eating habits early in life may become the best, most cost-effective avenue to combat obesity and contain cardiometabolic risk.”

In addition to the above, it might pay to refer to my little write-up on June 27, 2008 for a study of 39,000 women, which cast doubts on those numerous studies that say being fat and fit is alright. This study by Harvard-affiliated researchers can be found in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Are you weight wise? Let’s pray we are all weight wise, pound foolish. Please don’t add any pound unnecessarily. Having extra English pounds may be desirable, but not the other pounds—Fat pounds!