Appearances are deceptive, this phrase is quite suitable to tell that how deceptive your physic could be because sometimes those who look slim may be obese and those who look obese can be slim, means healthy. Yea, you got it right. Actually, understanding obesity is not less than solving a riddle.
However, new study has tried to unriddle this mystery and doing so, it found that people who outwardly look slim could be at higher risk of heart diseases and diabetes while those looking obese can be far away from such health threats because it is fat around our vital internal organs that determine their safety, not external fat. To find this fact, researchers used MRI scans and came up with these conclusions.
The study of Simon Relph, a marketing art director from Sydenham, Lon and Neil Ferguson, 23 a marketing designer from Bexley Village, Kent provides an ideal example of this. Through MRI scan , fact was naked that Simon, whose BMI was 27.7 and was giving a slim look, was actually carrying 15 liters of internal fat. On the other hand, Neil, 23 who was somewhat obese and was having BMI of 28.1 was carrying just 4 liters of internal fat. Surprisingly, Simon who gave slim look accepted that he was not indulging in physical activities while his colleagues Neil accepted that he was playing football quite often.
If seen in the light of this new study, then it is Simon who is at higher risk, compared to his colleague Neil. Don’t you think that when this study would come out then it would stand quite head to head to the traditional ways that doctors use to measure a person’s health? For instance, when a person goes for physical check up then doctors predicts about his cardiovascular health by measuring his BMI but if seen in the light of this new study, we cannot deny that measuring BMI is not a precise method to predict cardiovascular health. This finding is quite significant, which has tried to look at the whole concept in a new way.
Via: Telegraph
