Can You Be Fit But Fat?

Can an overweight person still be considered physically fit? The answer here is no according to the Mayo Clinic. Excess fat is not healthy for your ticker. The more excess fat on your body, the more trouble your heading into as far as disease goes in attacking your body. Fatty tissue is the human body's means of storing metabolic energy over extended periods of time. Fat also serves as a useful buffer towards a host of diseases. Fat helps to protect your vital organs, until such time as the offending substances can be broken down and/or removed from the body by various natural means, so all fat is not bad. Just the excess fat must go!

The popular question everybody asks is if obese people work out on a regular basis. Can they still stay healthy? Well, the exercises seem to make the body healthier for the moment, but it doesn't lower the health risk for the likes of getting Diabetes down the road, or preventing cardiovascular disease. This according to the experts of the Mayo Clinic. Exercising around 15 minutes a day will help lower your blood pressure and cholesterol and makes you feel good. Some may disagree, and think it's okay to be somewhat obese as long as you exercise. The experts agree that extra fat has to go.

However, some studies show that people who don't exercise on a regular basis or at all are just as much risk for disease, regardless of their body weight. Your body can withstand a lot of stress so it can still function adequately. Just by keeping a healthy body weight without exercise is not cutting the mustard. The bottom line is simply this: You have to force yourself to get up and exercise, maybe start with some nice walks. Around 30 minutes at least 5 days a week is what you need to be healthy for years to come. Always seek your physician's advice as to what type of exercise you should be doing and for how long as everybody is in different shape and has a different medical history.