EP 244: Can You Really Be Healthy at Any Size?

Pat, Aleks, and Som discuss the Healthy at Any Size movement.  ... Studies referenced:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109717390502?via%3Dihub "Metabolically healthy obese individuals had a higher risk of coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and heart failure than normal weight metabolically healthy individuals. Even individuals who are normal weight can have metabolic abnormalities and similar risks for cardiovascular disease events." The author of the study further concludes: "The priority of health professionals regarding these patients should be to promote and facilitate weight loss, as it is with any other obese patient." ... https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/39/5/397/4081012 "Irrespective of BMI, metabolically unhealthy individuals had higher CHD risk than their healthy counterparts. Conversely, irrespective of metabolic health, overweight and obese people had higher CHD risk than lean people. These findings challenge the concept of 'metabolically healthy obesity', encouraging population-wide strategies to tackle obesity." ... The Pat Flynn Show If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean the world to me if you could subscribe to, and leave a review for, The Pat Flynn show on iTunes HERE or Stitcher HERE. Reading your reviews and hearing your feedback is what keeps me fired up to make The Pat Flynn Show happen. Thank you!