Weight loss may be more deadly than weight gain

If asked if a person prefers to be thin or very fat, most people will respond to being very thin. Certainly, distorted beauty standards and their spread on social media are responsible for this, in addition to knowledge that weight gain usually brings a set of health risks. However, a new study indicates that being very thin can be more common.

The researchers used health data to investigate the relationship between the BMI (BMI) and deaths at 85,761 individuals, revealing that people can be “fat but appropriate”. They presented their results at the annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), which started today.

BMI The fats on the basis of length, weight and classification of individuals as weight loss (less than 18.5), normal (18.5 to less than 25), weight gain (25 to less than 30), obesity (30 to less than 40), or obesity (40 or more). In the research, scientists divided the normal rate into a natural decrease (18.5 to <20), average natural (20.0 to <22.5), and the natural upper (22.5 to <25.0). 81.4 % of the participants included in the study were female, and the average age was 66.4 years. The researchers agreed to sex, the level of joint disorder and the level of education.

What is the body mass index set that has a higher mortality?

“There are conflicting results about the scope of the body mass index associated with the lowest deaths,” said Sigrid Begrig Gribchulte, the main author of research and researcher at the Department of Clinical Medicine at Arahus University. statement. “It was believed that he was from 20 to 25 years, but it might turn up over time due to medical progress and public health improvements.”

7555 (8 %) of the participants died during the five years of follow -up to the team, and the researchers compared the possibility of deaths in various body mass index domains with people who have a body mass index at the ordinary level. Their results indicate that individuals with underweight have been more likely to die 2.73 times than upper individuals. Low individuals were twice more vulnerable to death, and medium individuals were likely to die by 27 % of the upper individuals. Interestingly, individuals with weight gain as well as individuals at the bottom of the obesity range (30.0 to <35.0) were likely to die like high individuals.

Researchers sometimes call this metabolism or “fat but suitable”. Individuals with a body mass index between 35 and less than 40, however, were 23 % more likely to die. Obesity people (the BMI of 40 years or more) were more likely to die than upper individuals. In other words, the high body mass index was not associated with the high deaths to the 35th result, and even the degrees between 35 and <40 had only a slightly higher risk of death. The team found patterns similar to deaths in the relationship between the body mass index and obesity of different ages, sex and levels of education.

“In line with previous research, we found that people who are underweight are facing a greater risk of death.” The potential explanation may be that some people lose weight from the disease. “In these cases, it is the disease, not the low weight itself, which increases the risk of death, which may make it look like a body mass index at the highest preventive matter,” she confessed. However, “it is also possible that people with the upper body mass index live for a longer period – most people we have studied – have certain preventive features that affect the results.”

BMI does not reveal everything

What’s more, fat distribution plays an important role in an individual’s health. He explained: “Violent fats – fats that are active independently and stored in the depth of the abdomen, wrapped around the organs – vehicles falling negatively affecting the health of metabolism.” As such, people with a body mass index may be of 35 who are formed in the form of apples (with fat around their stomach) harmful health conditions that do not affect others also with the 35 body mass index but have fat on the hips, background, and thighs.

Broon concluded that “it is clear that the treatment of obesity should be intended to take factors such as the distribution of fats and the presence of cases such as type 2 diabetes when determining the weight of a targeted.”

In a world of social media governed and unrealistic expectations that depend on advertisements, the study joins previous research that tries to control the record on healthy body weight. What’s more, highlights this – Dozens of body mass index alone do not necessarily provide the full pictureAlthough the scale appears to be Accurate regarding American obesity.