America went from a country with unattainable standards to zero standards. This country will look back on this generation as the generation that destroyed this country.
@Creeper Freak they actually workout very hard. They are similar to a powerlifter, though trade more strength for fat. There is a difference between a powerlifter with fat and a fat person who can "lift" more because they are bigger.
Yep I used to be extremely underweight 6,2 and 136lbs I definitely noticed some health benefits of gaining weight such as being sick much less and my hands finally don’t feel super cold like a reptile
False comparison. Cigarettes are bad for you, no matter what size you are. Being fat and the correlation to fitness or not fitness is another story entirely.
Again, false comparison. Better comaparison. Considering many factors, one can be fat and fit or average and unfit or anywhere in bwtween. too many folks assume it's an either or offering. It's not.
teknodisko honestly this shit is like telling a crack addict that you can be a healthy crack head. the people on here saying they work out all the time and are morbidly obese check what you eat and i call bullshit too.
I don't think being overweight is healthy but if your overweight and active and eat healthy then your more healthier than a person who mainly eats junk food and are not able to run .
As an underweight sufferer of hyperthyroidism, I will admit that most of my overweight friends were more fit than me. They had more muscle mass beneath the fat. I had no fat and no muscle. THIS is a stupid rationalization. Being over AND under-weight is NOT "fit". Gain or lose, healthily.
@@BuGGyBoBerl yep, if you're a bit chubby it's fine,but don't say being overweight or underweight is healthy cuz it's not, there's a reason why the term is "over" and "under"
@@hira587 ofc its not healthy to be fat or underweight. the term over and under is correct, but the definition of it is questionable. somehow we got to the point that being super lean and all muscles is seen as the optimum of health. thats wrong. we also know that a being a little chubby in your older days is the healthiest state. im not advocating being fat or superskinny. im saying dont make up unrealistic ideals. there is a middle area with people being a little skinny or a little chubby and thats all fine
No.there's actually more to be made from convincing fat people that their fat is deadly and only this or that weight loss program will save fat folks from early death and disease.
Strongman would workout atleast 9 hours a weak, and don't eat junk food. They don't lost weight? Don't spread lies. If you eat in a calorie deficit you lose weight. If you eat maintenance you maintain, and if you eat in a surplus you gain weight. Junk food has nothing to do with it. You can eat junk food and still lose weight.
Joe Bill Strong men definitely don't ever workout in a caloric deficit but for someone who wants to lose weight would need to. You can definitely be underweight and eat junk food but you can't eat healthy and be fat. Want a link to the study proving the maximum weight gain with all the worst genetic for fat gain and the slowest metabolism only accounts for 25 pounds of excess weight on a healthy diet. Keep the excuses tho you must be pretty "healthy"
@@joebill5136 Fat =/= Muscle, Strongman/Bodybuilders have more muscle also Density: Muscle>Fat which mean for the same volume Muscle will weight more than fat
She maybe "fit" compared to someone who doesn't work out at all, but she's not healthy... This doctor is probably paid by McDonald's or Coca Cola to spread lies. There's no way she's "fit" compared to someone who eats healthy AND exercices. They didn't explain how she is "fit", did she win a marathon ? What did she accomplish ?
@@north6502 idk about for men but for women you can eat healthy and excersies and still be fat for mamy reasons. Which sucks in a society where being fat makes ppl assume you are greedy and lazy.
LOL. I have my doubts she’s actually exercising up to 9 hours per week. If she is, she is also eating like a horse and not really keeping track of her calorie intake.
Ok here's what I think. Being at normal weight is probably the best and healthiest thing to do...if your slightly underweight that's ok and being slightly overweight that's ok too, especially if you have a lot of mussels or whatever . All that matters is that what your eating is relatively or mostly healthy and that you get some sort of daily exercise even it's just walking for twenty minutes. However, if you are extremely underweight or obese, or at any weight in which you have health problems because of it, then that is not okay. You shouldn't need a extra seat belt or not be able to fit in a booth at a restaurant.
Savannah McCoy Someone could be a normal wait and eat like shit then die around the same time as an obese person from the toxins that are in food now a days to make food production more profitable. Being to skinny is bad for your body so is carrying to much fat but healthy definitely isn't just how much fat someone has. Eat 99% plant foods like leafy greens fruits and nuts and have a piece of lean wild meat or it won't have any of the nutrients you need. You don't have to eat meat but it's difficult to eat enough vitamin A and some B vitamins without it unless you can eat a half pound of kale a day.
Exactly what I was trying to say to someone in an earlier comment. But he just doesn't get it. He thinks that just because my BMI qualifies me as obese (it's currently 29.7 bordering 30) I must be some huge ass glutton who eats everything in sight, is 100lbs overweight (logically wouldn't that be around in 40 BMI??) and has no clue as to what constitutes my weight.
Every time I bought clothes and I looked terrible in them, I would always blame the clothes rather than my own body, then keep buying new clothes and would still look terrible and just waste money but then I took action and lost weight worked out and got in shape and now I feel like I look good in anything. I’m telling you, once you lose the weight and workout, you truly will look good in any single thing you put on. I gained WAYYY more confidence to go out and have a good time. I use to have man boobs and flappy arms which looked terrible in any shirt I put on, now I have a flat chest and toned arms love wearing shirts and jerseys everyday. It’s actually kinda crazy, you don’t have to worry about your belly being outlined in a tight shirt or whether ur pants look flabby. When you slim down, no matter what position you’re in you will look good. I went from. 240 to 190 in 4 months. Push yourself and use that as motivation!
Before the “Healthy at every size” crew get a hold of this, he said “if you don’t lose those last 20 or 30 pounds” you can still be healthy. So no, being 200 pounds overweight IS STILL NOT OKAY!
Lizzo is like 200 pounds and she is fit she can be active at her performances for a long time. You can be curvy and healthy you don't always have to be skinny to be considered healthy. I know a lot of people who are chubby who eat healthy and work out but they are still chubby. I also know skinny people who eat bad and never work out are they healthy because they are skinny?
Sometimes... The title is just wrong. Now bmi is not perfect but does relate to health in an extent. But this girl being an example, that is not healthy, that's bad. Being fit is not the same as healthy
Everyone has a different body-type. Some people (like me) need more carbs AND proteins. ALL people, need less junk food. And ALL people need exercise. FEELING GOOD inside and out should be the focus of your entire life !
ahmad dictator @_@ Hey you know what is fat to us here? Just a little fking belly is fat. A small amount of fat your overweight. Some people like looking at abs. But come on its fine. Fit and healthy no matter what size is better
lolrrrlol I didnt say I accept fat acceptance I am not into feminism movement either. I said Fit and healthy is in any size. But I didnt say I accept fat and obese people. I believe they should become healthy.
I really don’t think you understand how difficult it is to walk a 15 min mile off a treadmill. This is coming from someone who walks 8 miles a day for exercise.
All those 500 lbs. weighting 70-year old's do agree with HAES. The huge issue is the difference between overweight and obese. When being overweight may be even beneficial, being obese is not good. In the US Army, they use BMI plus 10 lbs. They want you to have 10 lbs. extra muscle exactly. Once you start getting too big, they start making you do static exercises (pushing the wall, carrying ammo boxes etc.). They are OK with let say you have 3 lbs. of fat and 7 lbs. of muscle because it could make you survive longer in the case of your food supplies being cut off. However, if you want to be up to physical fitness standard, most of the extra 10 lbs. must be muscle. Losing weight is important because of that majority of doctors are fat phobic or fat convenient. They blame all your problems on you being overweight or obese without checking for real causes.
There is a huge difference between being 10 lbs. overweight and being obese. I want to have extra 10 lbs. (7 lbs. of extra muscle and 3 lbs. of extra fat). Being overweight by a small amount has been shown beneficial under certain circumstances (example: can help regulate insulin levels in some people) ; however, being obese has never been shown beneficial. And I do get the argument that eating too much added sugar shows 2-twice as strong correlation with Diabetes II than being obese, but being obese still increase your chances of Diabetes in a significant way.
You have to do what is good for your particular body. Some people can eat dozens of eggs a week and never get high cholesterol and others cholesterol level goes sky high (just an example).
So I just turned 32. I am right at 6 ft and weigh 225 lbs. I coach high school football and tennis and teach 4th grade. I am a very active person but BMI has me labeled as "obese". I run about 30 total miles a week, can still run hills and do conditioning drills with my football players, play complete sets with my tennis players (and dominate), bench press 405 lbs, and I can run a 6:55 mile. I did a body fat assessment at my local gym and I am about 17% body fat and my muscle mass was very high. My last physical checkup had my resting heart rate at 56 and my blood pressure was 120/80. I feel like I could still drop to maybe 210 lbs . but I feel great.
120/80 sounds a tad high for your physical condition if you excerise as much as you say. 120/80 is currently charted as "normal" but its being considered changed.
Some people are just naturally over weight, some people are just naturally skinny. If you skinny that doesn’t mean you are healthy, and if you are obese that doesn’t mean your unhealthy.
Part of the theory isn't too bad, but his facts and logic are insane. The basic BMI calculation is flawed, but to say a person with a lot of excess fat can be healthy because it helps them survive specific diseases is silly. Also suggesting that the only alternative is scrawny actresses is reductio ad absurdum.
So disappointing that they (even the healrh expert) forgot to mention overall lifestyle - not smoking, avoiding, junk food, getting enough sleep, managing stress are all key to good health.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his prime, had a BMI of 30.9, but had a body fat percentage of 8.5%. For those who don't know, that means he was scientifically jacked and ripped, and consequently very healthy. The only thing this video disproves, then, is the Body mass index, which is generally considered by the fitness industry to be erroneous. While this doctor is correct in disagreeing with the bmi, the body fat percentage cannot be ruled out. A percentage above ~ 30% is obese, and this woman definitely fits into that cohort, so she is far from healthy.
I think you could be fat and healthy. People could be fat because of a disease,some are fat because they just eat a lot. People could eat really healthy but be big.
June Philipe you can't be fat and healthy, even if it's due to a disease or if you do eat healthy. Your risks of getting a heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, strokes, certain types of cancer, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, fatty liver disease, kidney disease, pregnancy problems, bone and joint disease and immobility increase. The cause of your weight doesn't even matter for this. If you are overweight you are more at risk. I would love for it to not be true, but sadly it is...
You CAN be healthy and fat but most of the obese people get fat from unhealthy foods while Sumos are fat and healthy and gets fat from eating healthy food.
I am heavy but I don’t eat junk food my father side are big. When I was born I was already overweight. Compare to my father family I look thin. I remember I was 5 my mom took me running at the park to help me lose weight despite everything I can’t lose weight fast because of my metabolism. I noticed when I was older I had to do extreme dieting to lose weight. I ran 5 miles Money-Friday for 5 months and eat majority chicken and vegetables and still only lost 15 lbs when I needed to lose 45 lbs more. I really had moments were I got angry my mom made me eat I was tired of looking fat I was traumatized I would get as fat as my father family. I think the most frustrating part is if one day I eat bad I would gain almost 5 lbs my weight not normal. Despite everything my doctors always told me my results are good i am healthy.
Just get up and move around. I raked leaves three hours today. Make kids get outside and play. I'm near retirement, so they say, but activity is the key to health for me. God bless America
I can see what he's saying. I'm obese now. I used to be terribly underweight. I'm much healthier as a fat person than I was as an underweight person. Neither extreme is desirable, but... as a fat person, I don't pass out. My numbers on blood tests and whatnot are always good. My blood pressure is good. I'm just... fine. I recover from illnesses faster. When I get a stomach bug, I'm not teetering on the edge of starvation if I can't eat for a couple of days. I have more energy and just feel better. Do I need to lose weight? Yup. But I can see his point. I've been on both extremes of the scale, and I'd much rather be fat than thin.
I really believe it depends on your body type and how you store fat. Everyone is different physically. Some people gain fat only in their stomach areas or legs that’s when the fat is dangerous and when you should really lose weight.
I'm pretty fat, got weight after surgeries on my feet when I couldn't walk. Nowadays I do tons of sport, I hike to pretty difficult mountains, I do mountainbiking, climbing, and other fun stuff. I'm still fat, because after excersising hard I might eat just as much as I have spent, but damn, I'm much stronger than I have ever been and I might dare to say I'm fitter than many of my mates who have 'healthy' weight. Because they don't move, they smoke, they drink, and so on. So yes, I do think you can be fat and fit. My grand-grandma was fat all her life but she lived until 99 years old, and I think she would live longer if not a doctor mistake. So I'm very tired of hearing 'oh you're fat you will get diabetes or die from heart collapse at 30'. As long as you live more or less healthy lifestyle and eat healthy diverse foods, you can stay healthy even if you're fat. Of course, to a certain extent. My bmi is about 31, which is obese, but I am still pretty fit and muscular, but I guess after BMI of around 35-40 even with sports it might get difficult to stay healthy, here I agree. But nowadays society judges and shames people for neglecting their health even at bmi 25, eventhough these people might be perfectly healthy and fit, they just don't get into calorie deficit and might not even feel the need to.
GamingElla don’t worry. No sane American actually watches the news. All they do is cherrypick facts, slander our president, and spread lies. This goes for every single outlet. It’s best to just not listen to it cause you can guarantee that you’ll be lied to.
I’ve been weight training for about 7 years, personal training for about 3 and I always tell me clients to focus not on the scale, but on their body fat percentage. Keeping up with your body fat percentage is 100% a better indicator of whether you’re healthy or not. Exercise regularly, watch what you’re eating and avoid sugar and processed foods. Be a good weight and keep your body fat below 18%
@@essentialeugene whoa, I didn’t realize anyone replied to this! For men in their 40s, the ideal body fat range is 11%-21%. If you’re well over that 21%, then too much of your body is made of fat. Depending on your height and muscle mass, some men can be 280 with a lower body fat percentage, but if you know that’s not you, then yeah, you need to lose body fat.
I can kind of understand the idea behind this: Being overweight with a massive amount of body fat OR being underweight with little to no body fat IS NOT healthy; having a bit too much body fat but still pursuing a healthy lifestyle makes you healthier by practice, not physique
"Exercising 9 hours per day and not losing weight" Yeah, exercise doesn't make you lose weight. Restricting calories to create a deficit makes you lose weight. You can exercise 24/7 and you'd still be 300 lbs if you ate back everything you lost from exercise. You could even gain weight if you ate more than you "exercised away". On the other hand you could just lose weight by only dieting and not doing anything else if you wanted. As long as you ate less than you burned. That's the first law of thermodynamics. I don't get why this is such a hard concept to grasp. Also being overweight is directly tied to being unhealthy. Never mind all the risks of diabetes and whatever other illnesses it brings along. Jut the stress that you're putting on your joints daily. The fact that pregnancies have a smaller chance of working out well. The fact that pretty much anyone that is overweight isn't doing it by eating 3000 kcal of fruit, but rather 3000 kcal of sweets/junk food/etc. No matter how much lazy people would like it to be the other way around: obese=unhealthy. Being thin might equal being unhealthy if you are anorexic, do drugs, eat shit food, or whatever else. But it isn't directly correlated. So, in general being thin is healthier than being overweight. The person could still be unhealthy, but it doesn't have anything to do with their body weight (except people with extremely low body weights like anorexics/bulimics).
IIsuperstarII I am overweight..but I didn't get overweight from eating 3000kal of junk as you claimed. I eat whole foods as generally that makes up my local cuisine. I don't buy processed things in packets. So am I fat from healthy foods? Also I don't eat that much. Most times less than 2000kal. My BMI is 29 bordering 30. I am fitter than a lot of my skinny friends tho who eat way more crap than me and couldn't run a mile to save their lives. I run not that fast but for a fat girl I can jog a mile in 10mins. My best time for a 10k is 1hr 20m. I can swim freestyle for 1km in under 35mins. Not bad eh for a 190pounder?
IIsuperstarII you seem to have completely missed my point. I am simply referencing your claim that "you don't get obese by eating fruits but rather junk food" or along those lines. I am overweight, yes and I accept that. I just prevalenced that to being on a nutritional, wholefoods diet. According to my BMI at 30, I fall into the obese category. But my fat percentage is around 27. I am 190 pounds and about 5'6". Surely, that has had a lot to do with the foods I am eating which is still wayyy better than the crap most people (overweight or not) are eating. Also, certain foods actually make you burn more calories because of its fibre and water content. So oats is still better than say white bread even in the same caloric value as your body uses up more energy to digest complex carbs. But anyway I know I still have some ways to go in terms of my ideal weight, but atm my blood pressure, resting heart rate, blood sugar levels all indicate I am of fit health. That's all I care about really.
hazween23 That number of extra calories you burn from eating food is nothing compared to how much more you are eating than a "normal" person your height. And I didn't say that you can't get fat off of fruit. I said most obese people didn't get fat off of fruit. Which is still true. Go ask around in the US or UK or Dubai what the people with obviously high fat percentages regularly eat, I guarantee you its not fruit or vegetables. The simplest reason is that it's just too hard to get that fat off of such a calorie light food (except for some fruits). In fact I can even hardly believe that your diet is exactly as you describe it. Even if you truly believe it because you are clearly very uninformed. Maybe you do eat a lot of stuff that looks healthy and light, but it just isn't. Example: you make a salad with tomatoes, lettuce, and whatever other vegetables you like and then you throw in cheese and top it off with a bunch of olive oil. Just adding the olive oil alone probably added like 300kcal to a max 150kcal salad. You think you're eating light and healthy, but actually you're eating a bunch of grease with some vegetables on the side. And btw if your bloodpressure is perfect at whatever young (probably) age you are at now, that still doesn't mean anything. Complications don't normally set in with people that are in their prime. Your body could probably take even more. And if you happen to be a young woman then it is even more likely that your blood pressure right now tells us nothing. Considering the fact that young women are more likely to have a slightly lower bloodpressure which gets corrected (higher) as they get older. And just in case you had never heard it from anyone, gluttony is never healthy, no matter what food or drink it is. You can actually eat too much fruit. You can "overdose" on vitamins. There is also a prescribed maximum, it just never gets told to people because there are hardly any people that would actually deal with the problem of eating too much fruit. Look up the symptoms of eating too much Vitamin A for example if you don't believe me. You could even die by drinking too much water (which doesn't contain anything). Anything you eat or drink should be in moderation, because that is what your body requires. That includes "good" foods and drinks as well. And last of all, even if your veins don't get clogged with grease because you supposedly only eat fruit...you still weigh too much! It will never be healthy on your bones. If you don't deal with the complications of a heart attack you'll be dealing with the complications of brittle bones at an older age. Putting that much extra pressure on your body for so many years can't seriously seem healthy to you? And even if you physically still can run a mile in 10 minutes, I bet you don't like it. I've only ever been in the "fat" and "normal" section of BMI and I have to tell you I did everything I could to avoid running. We did have a different test in our high school annually where you just had to run as many circles around the football field as you could in 15 minutes and then get graded on that. And I absolutely hated it. I was faster than some of the people that weighed less than me, but at the end of it I was still beat. Fast forward a couple years till I lost some weight and I could definitly feel the difference. Moving simply cost me less energy, less effort. It also made me more likely to want to walk places. Which probably helped my body as well. Being fatter sadly also directly relates to moving around less because it just tires you out. And it hardly has to do with what you're eating. If I was stuck with a backpack that weighed a 100lbs I would be freaking sure that I wouldn't get off the couch any more than I had to. Regardless of what my actual diet is. So, sorry, no matter what you are actually gonna say about yourself to try to convince me that being obese can be equally healthy as being "normal" in any way, I won't believe you. It's bad for reasons outside of your diet, even if you have a diet that consists of fruit and vegetables and never any junk food or processed food.
IIsuperstarII I somehow get the impression that you are mistaking me for advocating that it's ok to be obese. Where have I ever implied that? I used to be a lot heavier than now and lost weight but at the same time I won't be dropping dead with the current fitness level and weight I am at now. You seem to be stretching my argument to extremes that are just so far fetched likening my diet to gluttony and so forth. I never said it's ok or that I overindulge in whatever foods I take. And no, obviously I don't just eat fruits or overeat them. In fact I stay away from most fruits as it's high in sugar. What I am also trying to point out is that it's important to factor in other indicators of health rather than just what the scales say. Any doctor would tell you that. I think you missed all that in your eagerness to say me wrong. In regard to my blood pressure and that as a woman I am predisposed to having an increase with age, well I am no fortune teller. But if I am able to maintain it with the relatively healthy diet I have now (prob not the best but still better than most) I still won't be dropping dead as a direct result from my 30 BMI. Again, in case you missed it, NO I AM NOT SAYING IT'S OK TO OVEREAT AND BE OBESE. But at least, it's ok to be fit and healthy even if you're carrying a little extra weight like me. I wouldn't be a glutton or predisposed to diseases just because I can't get to a 24/25 BMI. Get what I'm saying? Jeez. Your comments are laced with ignorance and not to mention your snide about me being misinformed and my diet. I wish I can show you how I look now to make you see a simple point.
hazween23 Reread your comments. Whether or not you literally said the words "BEING OBESE IS HEALTHY" is irrelevant, you are trying to imply that obesity doesn't have to be unhealthy by saying that: an obese person's diet is made up of only non processed, healthy foods and that you can run faster than some of your thinner friends and the fact that all your bloodwork is A-okay. You can go and claim "Those are just facts I wasn't implying anything." But in that case I'll end the discussion there because you clearly want to play dumb. You have only mentioned "facts" that are in line with the idea that obesity can give you the fitness level of a normal healthy person. Also, it is kind of comical that you keep finding ways to avoid responding to any of my arguments. Either it's "you missed my point. Let's not talk about that" or "omg you are so sure of yourself you should see yourself". I keep trying to respond to pieces of your comments in which you try to tell me that you're a healthy obese person, and you keep trying to make me look like I'm an obesity hating idiot that can't listen to reason. And no, you were not just trying to tell me there are other factors to look at when considering a person's health or you would have done that in the simpleist way "Weight isn't the only factor indicating health. Look at all those skinny cokeheads". You very clearly came at me trying to prove that obesity doesn't have to be a problem in itself if you just eat fruits and run fast. And then I told you that carrying an extra 100lbs is a problem in and of itself. And in response to your last part about "carrying a little extra weight can be...", let me remind you that I never actually talked about regularly fat people on the bmi scale (except in reference to myself because I never hit obese). I only talked about obese people. Which means people that dont just carry "a little bit of extra weight", but people that carry a lot of extra weight. Hell yeah people that carry an extra couple of pounds and are just chubby can be just as healthy as skinny people or even healthier. But for the last time, obesity is a problem in itself. It isn't just a bit of extra weight. And it isn't made up for by eating healthy foods. That is why I keep responding to your supposedly neutral facts with comments of my own. And just to clear things up, the only reason you mistook my comments for snide is because they apparently disagree with your worldview. At no point did I cuss at you, or imply that you were stupid for believing something, or anything. The only thing you could have mistaken as snide is the "uniformed" part of one of my comments and while that was not meant as an insult, I still stand behind it. You gave me the idea that you thought you were eating 3000kcal worth of fruit and vegetables every single day, which is practically impossible seeing as how expensive fruit is and how much you would need to consume of it to actually get to 3000kcal. My only conclusions were that you are not sure what you were eating, or that you were lying. And I figured it would be snide of me to tell you you were a liar so I went with the alternative. Apparantly a mistake. And about me stretching things to the extreme to call what you're doing gluttony... excuse me? You are eating well above what is required for your body. You are in fact eating so much that you are hurting your body. In what universe is it stretching stuff to extremes to call your eating habits gluttonous? Do you think only 400 pounders can be called gluttonous? Or are they just regular too? I don't get how you could seriously think that you could get to obesity without gluttony? It must just be a big coincidence that I have never seen any obese starving people in Africa. And lastly, it is really something to have you tell me that I'm ignorant and snide when in all my comments I have tried to state things as objectively as possible and only mention you personally in things that you brought yourself up as evidenice. Yet every single time I get a response from you indicating that you have either disregarded everything I said or you are trying to tell me that I'm too stupid to see your point. The impression I got from you is the exact same you got from me. Basically that you are misinformed and actually think that your weight poses no problems (because only a fortune teller could look into the future and predict that an extra 100lbs is gonna leave you with brittle bones), and that I'm an idiot for implying that you are wrong and not listening to anything you say (even though I keep responding to arguments in your comments while you have not at any point actually responded to mine without immediatly disregarding it). I don't see the point in continueing this discussion because clearly neither of us is gonna change our position any time soon. Good luck on your health goals.
I wonder why this guy is allowed to be on television. This is bad example of terrible doctor. Obesity means your body is trying to tell you that you have unhealthy body. That is warning signal. This is not OK. If you ignore it, it could lead to other health problems down the road. You might feel fine now because you just a bit of obese on the weight and you add some exercise. It might keep you down temporary. As you're aging, your metabolism goes down and you keep eating the same stuff that got you obese. Exercise will have very little effect change in your body. Losing weight starts at the kitchen, not at the gym. Exercise only helps to speed up the process of losing weight. It's not the main thing.
That doctor is conflating fat percentage and BMI. And yes if you’re merely 20 pounds overweight, you can be healthy. Different from being morbidly obese.
totally disagree! If you do not get proper nutrition the exercise can hurt you! Your tissues will not be functioning properly and will degrade or be unable to heal.
BMI is bull shit. I hike mountains, I go to the gym nearly everyday, I snow shoe, I mountain bike, I do tons of stuff. I am considered morbidly obese but I AM FIT! I walk more than a mile in 15 mins btw!
Aventuring to a Better Me: But you clearly don't eat healthy. You think physical activity will make you healthy? that's only about 10%. the other 90% is diet.
dccmaj man I have been eating extremely healthy for more than a year and a half and have lost 95 lbs so pls get your info before accusing people of not eating healthy. Thanks!
Just ignore the fat around your liver, your organs, your heart, and your early death at 50. Just because you exercise doesn't mean your healthy, it's not that simple.
So let me get this straight, living a healthy lifestyle is the dumbest thing you've ever heard? I never would have expected someone with a name like "convict" to be such a font of intellectual acumen.
David Young My username name has nothing to do with intellectual acumen, talk about being judgmental. FYI, I live a very healthy lifestyle, 6'0 160lbs and track my macros daily, just to get that out of the way. Even if you're eating healthy and OVERWEIGHT, it is a PROBLEM.
I think he really should have phrased it as "You can have a heavy weight, but still be healthy". Because going with the examples of the football players, their heavy, but it's all muscle
These people are drawing parallels that are not present what so ever. The doctor is saying BMI is broken and 20 pounds overweight can be healthy. That women is not a healthy weight
its not that im fat its just im really heavy when i told my friends i had overweight they actually couldnt believe me they said i looked normal btw im still trying to lose weight tho
"Thinner means sicker and heavier means healthier." what? That literally makes no sense at all. I'm 6"4' and used to weigh about 275 and I started to have a lot of minor health problems ranging from constant headaches to high blood pressure, but since I started to lose weight and eat healthier, those health problems have decreased significantly. Now I weigh about 256, and I still have a ways to go, to go back to my normal weight range (which is 220 to 225) but like I said, those minor health problems have decreased significantly. I would like to add, that it is unhealthy to be underweight too, so you have to find that healthy medium where you're in the normal weight range for your height.
I measure my fitness by how my body responds to exercise. I suck at cardio but weightlifting I'm above average for a woman(I can put a couch on my shoulder and walk down the street)(But I can't run a mile)So, I need to work on my cardiovascular fitness
I love how this guy is talking about NFL linemen being considered obese and not the other 99.99% of other people who are large. And NFL linemen have dieticians that no one has
Weight stigma is a result of weight bias. Weight bias refers to the negative ideologies associated with obesity. These can include laziness, lack of will power, a lack of moral character, bad hygiene, low level of intelligence and unattractiveness. Stigmatising beliefs and ideologies can lead to stigmatising acts. Quote: People lack education and how they have been sheeped lol Nothing new. Honestly this is not surprising based on the amazing things the body is capable of. It's almost like people never looked into history and maybe idk questioned societal logic. Think for yourself but you don't have to, not everyone wants to learn new things. That's understandable.
Being skinny does not equal fit and neither does being fat. BMI works good for diagnosing how unhealthy someone is by overweight but the fat to muscle ratio is what needs to be looked at for fitness.
Why are all the critics making fun of the 15 minute mile when they can probably just do it themselves? 15 minute mile isbthe average for walking.... Why is that dude on the desk ragging on that. Judging from his physical appearance he couldn't even run one mile
Why is the doctor referencing the BMI as if it's a good scale to use? The BMI is ridiculous. According to the BMI, a 6"3" man should not weight any more than 199 lbs or he is considered overweight.
And before anyone says anything lowering your body temperature burns a certain type of fat cell used for heat absorption which is the easiest type of fat to burn.
Problem: america is too fat
Solution: lower our standards
Modern problems recurred modern solutions
That's America. The world is laughing at us
America went from a country with unattainable standards to zero standards. This country will look back on this generation as the generation that destroyed this country.
He’s jaaaaames Cameron, the greatest pioneer!!!
@@kimchi2780 lol the country was already fucked, might as well make it chaos and have fun 😈😈😈
Exercising 9 hours a week and still fat. ur doing something wrong girl
You're right. Its called eating crap food.
You guys didn't watch the vid then
Lockon Stratos I watched it. The doctor’s argument is a poor one.
Matthew Brunette you just want to be funny instead of productive, get in the real world
Lockon Stratos Please sir tell me what is so funny about any of the comments I have made?
losing weight by exercising is meh but losing weight by eating better is more important
You need both. If you are losing weight by diet alone, you may be also losing muscle tone and some fat tissue that is actually healthy.
Namiber - Any Time is TimeLapse Time! So trueee!!
nonsense. whats your point?
BuGGyBoBerl you’re a fucking dumbass if you think you can work out and eat a lot of shit food
BigBoy Black even college students in dept can eat healthy. It’s only unless you are making veeeeerrry little that you can’t eat healthy
Both extremes are unhealthy, you need a little fat, but not so much where you break your back getting out of bed....
@Creeper Freak they actually workout very hard. They are similar to a powerlifter, though trade more strength for fat. There is a difference between a powerlifter with fat and a fat person who can "lift" more because they are bigger.
Yep I used to be extremely underweight 6,2 and 136lbs I definitely noticed some health benefits of gaining weight such as being sick much less and my hands finally don’t feel super cold like a reptile
@Creeper Freak they have a lot of muscles too.
@Creeper Freak Sumo wrestlers rarely live past 60
@Creeper Freak you can't compare sumo wrestlers with i eat 8 pizzas a day fatties.lol
This doctor is sugarcoating everything. My bmi is on healthy weight but my im still not healthy because my bodyfat is like 30%.
Sugarcoating is the perfect term for that description Xp
If he is sugarcoating then why didn't the fatties eat it yet?
but are you exercising 9 hours?
Ur the kinda person I like.
Ej_ L you’re not 30% lol, maybe 20-25%. 30 is crazy unhealthy
jogs for 15 minutes
rewards self with 2 large pizzas, a chocolate cake and 2 liters of diet coke
_diet_ coke lmao
😂😂😂
Exactly
That's cancels all the cardio positive effects...
oooh.. the calories.. 🍕🍕
Heavier only means healthier if you are looking at muscle since its denser than fat...
Thanks captain obvious
More dense not heavier.
A pounds a pound the world around.
not that simple. a bit fat is indeed healthy
Keyword here is a BIT, not a truckload lmfao.
fat and fit is like smoking cigarettes and being healthy
False comparison. Cigarettes are bad for you, no matter what size you are. Being fat and the correlation to fitness or not fitness is another story entirely.
Again, false comparison. Better comaparison. Considering many factors, one can be fat and fit or average and unfit or anywhere in bwtween. too many folks assume it's an either or offering. It's not.
Nelda Dunlap I chain smoke and I run at least 20 miles a week
xd lmao at the idea of being fat and healthy. fat acceptance gone too far
Potent Onslaught you can look fat due to muscle but people are twisting this saying if you're fat (instead of saying muscliy) you can be healthy
So if you smoke and don't have any negative symptoms your healthy? Even if you smoke and work out? makes sense
teknodisko honestly this shit is like telling a crack addict that you can be a healthy crack head. the people on here saying they work out all the time and are morbidly obese check what you eat and i call bullshit too.
no, there are studies showing that a bit of fat has no negative effect, contrary it can help.
ikr. shitty logic, I’m a smoker and I work out so I’m HeAlThY, right ? 😂😂
U know right smoking and being is not the same thing
If you breathe alot its lung excercies
Basically this doctor figured out the classic method of "if you tell people what you want to hear they will eat it up" and wrote a book to get rich.
"Stop fearing fat" Uhmm... riiight I'd rather not have to waddle.
Hahaha he said waddle hahaha.
Doesn't look like the lady exercise in the video is waddling. Give the assumption a rest.
Nelda Dunlap oh god 😂
@@cattoes oh , so obesity ?
Yeah I'm guessing you know zero about obesity
"Heavier means healthier" bruh
Ali Tanwir dinosaurs died 65 million years ago how much do whales live
Luis Rios we’re talking about humans smh 🤦♂️.
Luis Rios you fucking idiot. We talkin' bout HUMANS
@@luisrios1922 Let me just....
mass extinction, whales live in water to they were safer from it/evolved smh
Luis Rios yeah If the stupid dinosaurs got *THICCER* they would have survived the asteroid that turn earth into a living hell
I don't think being overweight is healthy but if your overweight and active and eat healthy then your more healthier than a person who mainly eats junk food and are not able to run .
Junk food makes you fat
Very true
As an underweight sufferer of hyperthyroidism, I will admit that most of my overweight friends were more fit than me. They had more muscle mass beneath the fat. I had no fat and no muscle. THIS is a stupid rationalization. Being over AND under-weight is NOT "fit". Gain or lose, healthily.
defention of over and underweight is a problem. a bit fat isnt unhealthy at all
Old saying "too much of everything is bad" I apply this saying in my daily life.
Eat more
@@BuGGyBoBerl yep, if you're a bit chubby it's fine,but don't say being overweight or underweight is healthy cuz it's not, there's a reason why the term is "over" and "under"
@@hira587 ofc its not healthy to be fat or underweight. the term over and under is correct, but the definition of it is questionable. somehow we got to the point that being super lean and all muscles is seen as the optimum of health. thats wrong. we also know that a being a little chubby in your older days is the healthiest state.
im not advocating being fat or superskinny. im saying dont make up unrealistic ideals. there is a middle area with people being a little skinny or a little chubby and thats all fine
Lol.. I guess there is a lot of money to try to rationalize obesity to fat people.
No.there's actually more to be made from convincing fat people that their fat is deadly and only this or that weight loss program will save fat folks from early death and disease.
Yes there is! Check out “Health at every size” and charlatans peddling that nonsense...
way more money in pressuring women to be skinny and look like children
@@kimmyyy1164 Nope... attractive people are just good at selling things.
Fat and fit dosn't mean Fat and healthy. When you work out 9 hours a week and don't eat junk you lose weight, end of story
Strongman would workout atleast 9 hours a weak, and don't eat junk food. They don't lost weight? Don't spread lies.
If you eat in a calorie deficit you lose weight. If you eat maintenance you maintain, and if you eat in a surplus you gain weight.
Junk food has nothing to do with it. You can eat junk food and still lose weight.
Joe Bill Strong men definitely don't ever workout in a caloric deficit but for someone who wants to lose weight would need to.
You can definitely be underweight and eat junk food but you can't eat healthy and be fat. Want a link to the study proving the maximum weight gain with all the worst genetic for fat gain and the slowest metabolism only accounts for 25 pounds of excess weight on a healthy diet. Keep the excuses tho you must be pretty "healthy"
@@joebill5136 Fat =/= Muscle, Strongman/Bodybuilders have more muscle also Density: Muscle>Fat which mean for the same volume Muscle will weight more than fat
She maybe "fit" compared to someone who doesn't work out at all, but she's not healthy... This doctor is probably paid by McDonald's or Coca Cola to spread lies. There's no way she's "fit" compared to someone who eats healthy AND exercices. They didn't explain how she is "fit", did she win a marathon ? What did she accomplish ?
@@north6502 idk about for men but for women you can eat healthy and excersies and still be fat for mamy reasons. Which sucks in a society where being fat makes ppl assume you are greedy and lazy.
A mile in 15 minutes is a perfect goal if you are younger than 7 or older than 70.
Lol
If you have little body fat you aren't fat. Generally, BMI is still a good tool. It's only inaccurate for children, the elderly, and elite athletes.
LMAO that "more fit " woman looked like she was about to pass out from those what? 50 pounds? I'm dead 😂😂😂
LOL. I have my doubts she’s actually exercising up to 9 hours per week. If she is, she is also eating like a horse and not really keeping track of her calorie intake.
I Snatched Jhope’s Chill BTS wouldn't approve
Ok here's what I think. Being at normal weight is probably the best and healthiest thing to do...if your slightly underweight that's ok and being slightly overweight that's ok too, especially if you have a lot of mussels or whatever . All that matters is that what your eating is relatively or mostly healthy and that you get some sort of daily exercise even it's just walking for twenty minutes. However, if you are extremely underweight or obese, or at any weight in which you have health problems because of it, then that is not okay. You shouldn't need a extra seat belt or not be able to fit in a booth at a restaurant.
Savannah McCoy Someone could be a normal wait and eat like shit then die around the same time as an obese person from the toxins that are in food now a days to make food production more profitable. Being to skinny is bad for your body so is carrying to much fat but healthy definitely isn't just how much fat someone has. Eat 99% plant foods like leafy greens fruits and nuts and have a piece of lean wild meat or it won't have any of the nutrients you need. You don't have to eat meat but it's difficult to eat enough vitamin A and some B vitamins without it unless you can eat a half pound of kale a day.
Exactly what I was trying to say to someone in an earlier comment. But he just doesn't get it. He thinks that just because my BMI qualifies me as obese (it's currently 29.7 bordering 30) I must be some huge ass glutton who eats everything in sight, is 100lbs overweight (logically wouldn't that be around in 40 BMI??) and has no clue as to what constitutes my weight.
Hey I weigh 280 lbs. I am 42 years old.
What if the person doesn’t want to be slightly under/over weight?
@@elora179 then they can be average weight or be shunned by society for being too lazy.
Every time I bought clothes and I looked terrible in them, I would always blame the clothes rather than my own body, then keep buying new clothes and would still look terrible and just waste money but then I took action and lost weight worked out and got in shape and now I feel like I look good in anything. I’m telling you, once you lose the weight and workout, you truly will look good in any single thing you put on. I gained WAYYY more confidence to go out and have a good time. I use to have man boobs and flappy arms which looked terrible in any shirt I put on, now I have a flat chest and toned arms love wearing shirts and jerseys everyday. It’s actually kinda crazy, you don’t have to worry about your belly being outlined in a tight shirt or whether ur pants look flabby. When you slim down, no matter what position you’re in you will look good. I went from. 240 to 190 in 4 months. Push yourself and use that as motivation!
Ignore my username. What diet/ excercizes did you do to reach that?
Also great job man, proud of you :)
Dude is just creating more patients for himself lol 😂
Before the “Healthy at every size” crew get a hold of this, he said “if you don’t lose those last 20 or 30 pounds” you can still be healthy. So no, being 200 pounds overweight IS STILL NOT OKAY!
Lizzo is like 200 pounds and she is fit she can be active at her performances for a long time. You can be curvy and healthy you don't always have to be skinny to be considered healthy. I know a lot of people who are chubby who eat healthy and work out but they are still chubby. I also know skinny people who eat bad and never work out are they healthy because they are skinny?
Sometimes... The title is just wrong. Now bmi is not perfect but does relate to health in an extent. But this girl being an example, that is not healthy, that's bad. Being fit is not the same as healthy
@@rockngoals6531 that is bullshit. Being a few pounds overweight, maybe. Obese, absolutely not.
Everyone has a different body-type. Some people (like me) need more carbs AND proteins. ALL people, need less junk food. And ALL people need exercise. FEELING GOOD inside and out should be the focus of your entire life !
No, we're all humans. We all thrive on a whole foods plant based diet. Everyone who does it correctly succeeds
ahmad dictator some are fitter than thin people ( who dont workout at all)
ahmad dictator @_@ Hey you know what is fat to us here? Just a little fking belly is fat. A small amount of fat your overweight.
Some people like looking at abs.
But come on its fine. Fit and healthy no matter what size is better
lolrrrlol ? In fact I am not fat. And I dont believe in making people fat and unfit.😂
lolrrrlol I didnt say I accept fat acceptance I am not into feminism movement either. I said Fit and healthy is in any size. But I didnt say I accept fat and obese people. I believe they should become healthy.
I really don’t think you understand how difficult it is to walk a 15 min mile off a treadmill. This is coming from someone who walks 8 miles a day for exercise.
My BMI is 25 so overweight but im healthy and my doctor says I’m fine.
Me too but I'm thin but my tummy is telling me that I'm a whale and to stop lying to yourself. So let's say that I'm skinny fat 🤷
All those 500 lbs. weighting 70-year old's do agree with HAES. The huge issue is the difference between overweight and obese. When being overweight may be even beneficial, being obese is not good. In the US Army, they use BMI plus 10 lbs. They want you to have 10 lbs. extra muscle exactly. Once you start getting too big, they start making you do static exercises (pushing the wall, carrying ammo boxes etc.). They are OK with let say you have 3 lbs. of fat and 7 lbs. of muscle because it could make you survive longer in the case of your food supplies being cut off. However, if you want to be up to physical fitness standard, most of the extra 10 lbs. must be muscle. Losing weight is important because of that majority of doctors are fat phobic or fat convenient. They blame all your problems on you being overweight or obese without checking for real causes.
So true!
There is a huge difference between being 10 lbs. overweight and being obese. I want to have extra 10 lbs. (7 lbs. of extra muscle and 3 lbs. of extra fat). Being overweight by a small amount has been shown beneficial under certain circumstances (example: can help regulate insulin levels in some people) ; however, being obese has never been shown beneficial. And I do get the argument that eating too much added sugar shows 2-twice as strong correlation with Diabetes II than being obese, but being obese still increase your chances of Diabetes in a significant way.
You have to do what is good for your particular body. Some people can eat dozens of eggs a week and never get high cholesterol and others cholesterol level goes sky high (just an example).
So I just turned 32. I am right at 6 ft and weigh 225 lbs. I coach high school football and tennis and teach 4th grade. I am a very active person but BMI has me labeled as "obese". I run about 30 total miles a week, can still run hills and do conditioning drills with my football players, play complete sets with my tennis players (and dominate), bench press 405 lbs, and I can run a 6:55 mile. I did a body fat assessment at my local gym and I am about 17% body fat and my muscle mass was very high. My last physical checkup had my resting heart rate at 56 and my blood pressure was 120/80. I feel like I could still drop to maybe 210 lbs . but I feel great.
That's great
Kiddy Nap, do you think there is a "normal" for anyone though. Everybody is different.
anyone though?*
Jeffrey Horton Yeah I think there’s a normal for everyone
120/80 sounds a tad high for your physical condition if you excerise as much as you say.
120/80 is currently charted as "normal" but its being considered changed.
Some people are just naturally over weight, some people are just naturally skinny. If you skinny that doesn’t mean you are healthy, and if you are obese that doesn’t mean your unhealthy.
You can be fat with no health issues
It also makes you significantly more likely to obtain said issues
How many obese people in their 80s have you met?
You are assuming someone wants to live to be old
Just. Stay. Away. From. Unnecessary. Added. Sugars.
Literally half of the problem, right there.
Drugs are bad mkay
i have a bmi of 17 and it keeps going down 😕
Part of the theory isn't too bad, but his facts and logic are insane. The basic BMI calculation is flawed, but to say a person with a lot of excess fat can be healthy because it helps them survive specific diseases is silly. Also suggesting that the only alternative is scrawny actresses is reductio ad absurdum.
John Richardson ya
So disappointing that they (even the healrh expert) forgot to mention overall lifestyle - not smoking, avoiding, junk food, getting enough sleep, managing stress are all key to good health.
Simple answer: sadly no and that’s why we shouldnt tolerate it
Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his prime, had a BMI of 30.9, but had a body fat percentage of 8.5%. For those who don't know, that means he was scientifically jacked and ripped, and consequently very healthy. The only thing this video disproves, then, is the Body mass index, which is generally considered by the fitness industry to be erroneous. While this doctor is correct in disagreeing with the bmi, the body fat percentage cannot be ruled out. A percentage above ~ 30% is obese, and this woman definitely fits into that cohort, so she is far from healthy.
Look at how many bodybuilders die from cardiovascular disease. BMI works!
I think you could be fat and healthy. People could be fat because of a disease,some are fat because they just eat a lot. People could eat really healthy but be big.
June Philipe you can't be fat and healthy, even if it's due to a disease or if you do eat healthy.
Your risks of getting a heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, strokes, certain types of cancer, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, fatty liver disease, kidney disease, pregnancy problems, bone and joint disease and immobility increase. The cause of your weight doesn't even matter for this. If you are overweight you are more at risk.
I would love for it to not be true, but sadly it is...
You CAN be healthy and fat but most of the obese people get fat from unhealthy foods while Sumos are fat and healthy and gets fat from eating healthy food.
I am heavy but I don’t eat junk food my father side are big. When I was born I was already overweight. Compare to my father family I look thin. I remember I was 5 my mom took me running at the park to help me lose weight despite everything I can’t lose weight fast because of my metabolism. I noticed when I was older I had to do extreme dieting to lose weight. I ran 5 miles Money-Friday for 5 months and eat majority chicken and vegetables and still only lost 15 lbs when I needed to lose 45 lbs more. I really had moments were I got angry my mom made me eat I was tired of looking fat I was traumatized I would get as fat as my father family. I think the most frustrating part is if one day I eat bad I would gain almost 5 lbs my weight not normal. Despite everything my doctors always told me my results are good i am healthy.
After working out for like an hour my hunger dies completly. How can these people workout and still be fat?lol
70% diet, 30% exercise
Just get up and move around. I raked leaves three hours today. Make kids get outside and play. I'm near retirement, so they say, but activity is the key to health for me. God bless America
i agree but isnt that god bless murica at the end a bit random?
BuGGyBoBerl Hell nah. Of course it’s necessary! Darwin bless America! (I’m an atheist so I say that to be included lol)
I can see what he's saying. I'm obese now. I used to be terribly underweight. I'm much healthier as a fat person than I was as an underweight person. Neither extreme is desirable, but... as a fat person, I don't pass out. My numbers on blood tests and whatnot are always good. My blood pressure is good. I'm just... fine. I recover from illnesses faster. When I get a stomach bug, I'm not teetering on the edge of starvation if I can't eat for a couple of days. I have more energy and just feel better. Do I need to lose weight? Yup. But I can see his point. I've been on both extremes of the scale, and I'd much rather be fat than thin.
The BMI by itself might be inaccurate but that’s why we couple it with body fat percentage.
There is nothing wrong with the doctors statement. I suppose what he tries to say is we need ways to measure muscle vs fat body percent
I really believe it depends on your body type and how you store fat. Everyone is different physically. Some people gain fat only in their stomach areas or legs that’s when the fat is dangerous and when you should really lose weight.
Q. If the obese lady (Jessica) is "fit" and "healthy" then why can't she gain/maintain a safe/normal weight range long term?
I am 42 years old and weigh 280 lbs. Am I at risk for prediabetes?
If your atleast 6'6 feet tall than you are healthy
Overweight is less deadly than being underweight
I'm pretty fat, got weight after surgeries on my feet when I couldn't walk. Nowadays I do tons of sport, I hike to pretty difficult mountains, I do mountainbiking, climbing, and other fun stuff. I'm still fat, because after excersising hard I might eat just as much as I have spent, but damn, I'm much stronger than I have ever been and I might dare to say I'm fitter than many of my mates who have 'healthy' weight. Because they don't move, they smoke, they drink, and so on. So yes, I do think you can be fat and fit. My grand-grandma was fat all her life but she lived until 99 years old, and I think she would live longer if not a doctor mistake. So I'm very tired of hearing 'oh you're fat you will get diabetes or die from heart collapse at 30'. As long as you live more or less healthy lifestyle and eat healthy diverse foods, you can stay healthy even if you're fat. Of course, to a certain extent. My bmi is about 31, which is obese, but I am still pretty fit and muscular, but I guess after BMI of around 35-40 even with sports it might get difficult to stay healthy, here I agree. But nowadays society judges and shames people for neglecting their health even at bmi 25, eventhough these people might be perfectly healthy and fit, they just don't get into calorie deficit and might not even feel the need to.
Wtf is American news btw I’m not American
GamingElla don’t worry. No sane American actually watches the news. All they do is cherrypick facts, slander our president, and spread lies. This goes for every single outlet. It’s best to just not listen to it cause you can guarantee that you’ll be lied to.
“Having more fat might fight disease”
Died in heart attack
Sumos are healthy, but they don't eat junk foods.
"Im fat and healthy"
I think your knees would disagree
Speak for yourself
I agree, being healthy isn't always about losing weight and instead gaining fitness and eating healthy
Fat And Heavy is Healty
This is the editor for the Journal of American Cardiology they are talking about. He is giving you the real science.
6 years later... how is she doing?
Lol @ being able to walk a mile in 15 minutes
I’ve been weight training for about 7 years, personal training for about 3 and I always tell me clients to focus not on the scale, but on their body fat percentage. Keeping up with your body fat percentage is 100% a better indicator of whether you’re healthy or not. Exercise regularly, watch what you’re eating and avoid sugar and processed foods. Be a good weight and keep your body fat below 18%
Hey Bill I am 42 years old and I weigh 280 lbs. Is this a healthy weight?
Mayby
@@essentialeugene whoa, I didn’t realize anyone replied to this!
For men in their 40s, the ideal body fat range is 11%-21%. If you’re well over that 21%, then too much of your body is made of fat. Depending on your height and muscle mass, some men can be 280 with a lower body fat percentage, but if you know that’s not you, then yeah, you need to lose body fat.
As long as you love your body and you have a positive attitude, what the hell else matters?
fat people don't love their bodies. they're all in denial.
I can kind of understand the idea behind this: Being overweight with a massive amount of body fat OR being underweight with little to no body fat IS NOT healthy; having a bit too much body fat but still pursuing a healthy lifestyle makes you healthier by practice, not physique
Short answer no
Long answer no
🙄
"Exercising 9 hours per day and not losing weight"
Yeah, exercise doesn't make you lose weight. Restricting calories to create a deficit makes you lose weight. You can exercise 24/7 and you'd still be 300 lbs if you ate back everything you lost from exercise. You could even gain weight if you ate more than you "exercised away".
On the other hand you could just lose weight by only dieting and not doing anything else if you wanted. As long as you ate less than you burned. That's the first law of thermodynamics. I don't get why this is such a hard concept to grasp.
Also being overweight is directly tied to being unhealthy. Never mind all the risks of diabetes and whatever other illnesses it brings along. Jut the stress that you're putting on your joints daily. The fact that pregnancies have a smaller chance of working out well. The fact that pretty much anyone that is overweight isn't doing it by eating 3000 kcal of fruit, but rather 3000 kcal of sweets/junk food/etc.
No matter how much lazy people would like it to be the other way around: obese=unhealthy.
Being thin might equal being unhealthy if you are anorexic, do drugs, eat shit food, or whatever else. But it isn't directly correlated. So, in general being thin is healthier than being overweight. The person could still be unhealthy, but it doesn't have anything to do with their body weight (except people with extremely low body weights like anorexics/bulimics).
IIsuperstarII I am overweight..but I didn't get overweight from eating 3000kal of junk as you claimed. I eat whole foods as generally that makes up my local cuisine. I don't buy processed things in packets. So am I fat from healthy foods? Also I don't eat that much. Most times less than 2000kal. My BMI is 29 bordering 30. I am fitter than a lot of my skinny friends tho who eat way more crap than me and couldn't run a mile to save their lives. I run not that fast but for a fat girl I can jog a mile in 10mins. My best time for a 10k is 1hr 20m. I can swim freestyle for 1km in under 35mins. Not bad eh for a 190pounder?
IIsuperstarII you seem to have completely missed my point. I am simply referencing your claim that "you don't get obese by eating fruits but rather junk food" or along those lines. I am overweight, yes and I accept that. I just prevalenced that to being on a nutritional, wholefoods diet. According to my BMI at 30, I fall into the obese category. But my fat percentage is around 27. I am 190 pounds and about 5'6". Surely, that has had a lot to do with the foods I am eating which is still wayyy better than the crap most people (overweight or not) are eating. Also, certain foods actually make you burn more calories because of its fibre and water content. So oats is still better than say white bread even in the same caloric value as your body uses up more energy to digest complex carbs. But anyway I know I still have some ways to go in terms of my ideal weight, but atm my blood pressure, resting heart rate, blood sugar levels all indicate I am of fit health. That's all I care about really.
hazween23 That number of extra calories you burn from eating food is nothing compared to how much more you are eating than a "normal" person your height. And I didn't say that you can't get fat off of fruit. I said most obese people didn't get fat off of fruit. Which is still true. Go ask around in the US or UK or Dubai what the people with obviously high fat percentages regularly eat, I guarantee you its not fruit or vegetables. The simplest reason is that it's just too hard to get that fat off of such a calorie light food (except for some fruits).
In fact I can even hardly believe that your diet is exactly as you describe it. Even if you truly believe it because you are clearly very uninformed. Maybe you do eat a lot of stuff that looks healthy and light, but it just isn't. Example: you make a salad with tomatoes, lettuce, and whatever other vegetables you like and then you throw in cheese and top it off with a bunch of olive oil. Just adding the olive oil alone probably added like 300kcal to a max 150kcal salad. You think you're eating light and healthy, but actually you're eating a bunch of grease with some vegetables on the side.
And btw if your bloodpressure is perfect at whatever young (probably) age you are at now, that still doesn't mean anything. Complications don't normally set in with people that are in their prime. Your body could probably take even more. And if you happen to be a young woman then it is even more likely that your blood pressure right now tells us nothing. Considering the fact that young women are more likely to have a slightly lower bloodpressure which gets corrected (higher) as they get older.
And just in case you had never heard it from anyone, gluttony is never healthy, no matter what food or drink it is. You can actually eat too much fruit. You can "overdose" on vitamins. There is also a prescribed maximum, it just never gets told to people because there are hardly any people that would actually deal with the problem of eating too much fruit. Look up the symptoms of eating too much Vitamin A for example if you don't believe me. You could even die by drinking too much water (which doesn't contain anything). Anything you eat or drink should be in moderation, because that is what your body requires. That includes "good" foods and drinks as well.
And last of all, even if your veins don't get clogged with grease because you supposedly only eat fruit...you still weigh too much! It will never be healthy on your bones. If you don't deal with the complications of a heart attack you'll be dealing with the complications of brittle bones at an older age. Putting that much extra pressure on your body for so many years can't seriously seem healthy to you?
And even if you physically still can run a mile in 10 minutes, I bet you don't like it. I've only ever been in the "fat" and "normal" section of BMI and I have to tell you I did everything I could to avoid running. We did have a different test in our high school annually where you just had to run as many circles around the football field as you could in 15 minutes and then get graded on that. And I absolutely hated it. I was faster than some of the people that weighed less than me, but at the end of it I was still beat. Fast forward a couple years till I lost some weight and I could definitly feel the difference. Moving simply cost me less energy, less effort. It also made me more likely to want to walk places. Which probably helped my body as well. Being fatter sadly also directly relates to moving around less because it just tires you out. And it hardly has to do with what you're eating. If I was stuck with a backpack that weighed a 100lbs I would be freaking sure that I wouldn't get off the couch any more than I had to. Regardless of what my actual diet is.
So, sorry, no matter what you are actually gonna say about yourself to try to convince me that being obese can be equally healthy as being "normal" in any way, I won't believe you. It's bad for reasons outside of your diet, even if you have a diet that consists of fruit and vegetables and never any junk food or processed food.
IIsuperstarII I somehow get the impression that you are mistaking me for advocating that it's ok to be obese. Where have I ever implied that? I used to be a lot heavier than now and lost weight but at the same time I won't be dropping dead with the current fitness level and weight I am at now. You seem to be stretching my argument to extremes that are just so far fetched likening my diet to gluttony and so forth. I never said it's ok or that I overindulge in whatever foods I take. And no, obviously I don't just eat fruits or overeat them. In fact I stay away from most fruits as it's high in sugar. What I am also trying to point out is that it's important to factor in other indicators of health rather than just what the scales say. Any doctor would tell you that. I think you missed all that in your eagerness to say me wrong. In regard to my blood pressure and that as a woman I am predisposed to having an increase with age, well I am no fortune teller. But if I am able to maintain it with the relatively healthy diet I have now (prob not the best but still better than most) I still won't be dropping dead as a direct result from my 30 BMI. Again, in case you missed it, NO I AM NOT SAYING IT'S OK TO OVEREAT AND BE OBESE. But at least, it's ok to be fit and healthy even if you're carrying a little extra weight like me. I wouldn't be a glutton or predisposed to diseases just because I can't get to a 24/25 BMI. Get what I'm saying? Jeez. Your comments are laced with ignorance and not to mention your snide about me being misinformed and my diet. I wish I can show you how I look now to make you see a simple point.
hazween23 Reread your comments. Whether or not you literally said the words "BEING OBESE IS HEALTHY" is irrelevant, you are trying to imply that obesity doesn't have to be unhealthy by saying that: an obese person's diet is made up of only non processed, healthy foods and that you can run faster than some of your thinner friends and the fact that all your bloodwork is A-okay. You can go and claim "Those are just facts I wasn't implying anything." But in that case I'll end the discussion there because you clearly want to play dumb. You have only mentioned "facts" that are in line with the idea that obesity can give you the fitness level of a normal healthy person.
Also, it is kind of comical that you keep finding ways to avoid responding to any of my arguments. Either it's "you missed my point. Let's not talk about that" or "omg you are so sure of yourself you should see yourself". I keep trying to respond to pieces of your comments in which you try to tell me that you're a healthy obese person, and you keep trying to make me look like I'm an obesity hating idiot that can't listen to reason.
And no, you were not just trying to tell me there are other factors to look at when considering a person's health or you would have done that in the simpleist way "Weight isn't the only factor indicating health. Look at all those skinny cokeheads". You very clearly came at me trying to prove that obesity doesn't have to be a problem in itself if you just eat fruits and run fast. And then I told you that carrying an extra 100lbs is a problem in and of itself.
And in response to your last part about "carrying a little extra weight can be...", let me remind you that I never actually talked about regularly fat people on the bmi scale (except in reference to myself because I never hit obese). I only talked about obese people. Which means people that dont just carry "a little bit of extra weight", but people that carry a lot of extra weight. Hell yeah people that carry an extra couple of pounds and are just chubby can be just as healthy as skinny people or even healthier. But for the last time, obesity is a problem in itself. It isn't just a bit of extra weight. And it isn't made up for by eating healthy foods. That is why I keep responding to your supposedly neutral facts with comments of my own.
And just to clear things up, the only reason you mistook my comments for snide is because they apparently disagree with your worldview. At no point did I cuss at you, or imply that you were stupid for believing something, or anything. The only thing you could have mistaken as snide is the "uniformed" part of one of my comments and while that was not meant as an insult, I still stand behind it. You gave me the idea that you thought you were eating 3000kcal worth of fruit and vegetables every single day, which is practically impossible seeing as how expensive fruit is and how much you would need to consume of it to actually get to 3000kcal. My only conclusions were that you are not sure what you were eating, or that you were lying. And I figured it would be snide of me to tell you you were a liar so I went with the alternative. Apparantly a mistake.
And about me stretching things to the extreme to call what you're doing gluttony... excuse me? You are eating well above what is required for your body. You are in fact eating so much that you are hurting your body. In what universe is it stretching stuff to extremes to call your eating habits gluttonous? Do you think only 400 pounders can be called gluttonous? Or are they just regular too? I don't get how you could seriously think that you could get to obesity without gluttony? It must just be a big coincidence that I have never seen any obese starving people in Africa.
And lastly, it is really something to have you tell me that I'm ignorant and snide when in all my comments I have tried to state things as objectively as possible and only mention you personally in things that you brought yourself up as evidenice. Yet every single time I get a response from you indicating that you have either disregarded everything I said or you are trying to tell me that I'm too stupid to see your point. The impression I got from you is the exact same you got from me.
Basically that you are misinformed and actually think that your weight poses no problems (because only a fortune teller could look into the future and predict that an extra 100lbs is gonna leave you with brittle bones), and that I'm an idiot for implying that you are wrong and not listening to anything you say (even though I keep responding to arguments in your comments while you have not at any point actually responded to mine without immediatly disregarding it).
I don't see the point in continueing this discussion because clearly neither of us is gonna change our position any time soon. Good luck on your health goals.
This seems to be a fundamental flaw in BMI not the fact that fat can be healthy
I was a tennis super star and i hit a goal weight. I was the first tennis player to run a 8 minute mile. I wanted to be a cop.
YES
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@@arctic129 After if you do sports at the same time and eat balanced it passes I think
@@antho1418 yep, but overweight usually means overfat
but ye you are right, as long as it’s muscle ur good
I wonder why this guy is allowed to be on television. This is bad example of terrible doctor. Obesity means your body is trying to tell you that you have unhealthy body. That is warning signal. This is not OK. If you ignore it, it could lead to other health problems down the road. You might feel fine now because you just a bit of obese on the weight and you add some exercise. It might keep you down temporary. As you're aging, your metabolism goes down and you keep eating the same stuff that got you obese. Exercise will have very little effect change in your body. Losing weight starts at the kitchen, not at the gym. Exercise only helps to speed up the process of losing weight. It's not the main thing.
Neither extreme is ideal. And what is considered "fat"? Many average people are considered fat. However, morbid obesity is not good in any case.
That doctor is conflating fat percentage and BMI. And yes if you’re merely 20 pounds overweight, you can be healthy. Different from being morbidly obese.
Exercise is more important than a healthy diet.
LittleGojira its really not. both are equally important, if anything what you eat is way more important.
LittleGojira 80% diet 20% excercise
totally disagree! If you do not get proper nutrition the exercise can hurt you! Your tissues will not be functioning properly and will degrade or be unable to heal.
exercise is nothing if you do not eat properly
Strong is the new skinny. I’d rather have a woman with a little meat on her bones than someone who is like almost a skeleton...
I only watched this just to look at the comment section and my God you guys did not disappoint
the doctor looks like a strange alternative reality of Jim Carrey
BMI is bull shit. I hike mountains, I go to the gym nearly everyday, I snow shoe, I mountain bike, I do tons of stuff. I am considered morbidly obese but I AM FIT! I walk more than a mile in 15 mins btw!
Aventuring to a Better Me: But you clearly don't eat healthy. You think physical activity will make you healthy? that's only about 10%. the other 90% is diet.
dccmaj man I have been eating extremely healthy for more than a year and a half and have lost 95 lbs so pls get your info before accusing people of not eating healthy. Thanks!
Just ignore the fat around your liver, your organs, your heart, and your early death at 50.
Just because you exercise doesn't mean your healthy, it's not that simple.
Nope. I can stuff my pie hole with burgers, pizzas, donuts every day and remain fit because of BMI chart.
ya boi I agree. Most of the people that post here are morons. The BMI chart has been outdated since forever.
As long as you eat healthy and exercise your weight is irrelevant.
Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
So let me get this straight, living a healthy lifestyle is the dumbest thing you've ever heard? I never would have expected someone with a name like "convict" to be such a font of intellectual acumen.
David Young
My username name has nothing to do with intellectual acumen, talk about being judgmental. FYI, I live a very healthy lifestyle, 6'0 160lbs and track my macros daily, just to get that out of the way. Even if you're eating healthy and OVERWEIGHT, it is a PROBLEM.
Then why would you tell op that eating right and exercising is the dumbest thing you've ever heard? Is it just a reading comprehension problem?
David Young
I was referring to the "your weight is irrelevant" part.
I think he really should have phrased it as "You can have a heavy weight, but still be healthy". Because going with the examples of the football players, their heavy, but it's all muscle
These people are drawing parallels that are not present what so ever. The doctor is saying BMI is broken and 20 pounds overweight can be healthy. That women is not a healthy weight
2:05 “Somebody who can walk a mile in 15 minutes” by what standards is that considered fit?
Ever heard of the saying you can’t outrun a bad diet
its not that im fat its just im really heavy when i told my friends i had overweight they actually couldnt believe me they said i looked normal btw im still trying to lose weight tho
But if she’s healthy, why is she still overweight?
"Thinner means sicker and heavier means healthier." what? That literally makes no sense at all. I'm 6"4' and used to weigh about 275 and I started to have a lot of minor health problems ranging from constant headaches to high blood pressure, but since I started to lose weight and eat healthier, those health problems have decreased significantly. Now I weigh about 256, and I still have a ways to go, to go back to my normal weight range (which is 220 to 225) but like I said, those minor health problems have decreased significantly. I would like to add, that it is unhealthy to be underweight too, so you have to find that healthy medium where you're in the normal weight range for your height.
I'm slightly overweight but I've played soccer alot for fun and my mile time is 6:58
"How to manage your diabetes" ad at the start of this...."don't fear fat" message in this....I just.... wow
I measure my fitness by how my body responds to exercise. I suck at cardio but weightlifting I'm above average for a woman(I can put a couch on my shoulder and walk down the street)(But I can't run a mile)So, I need to work on my cardiovascular fitness
I love how this guy is talking about NFL linemen being considered obese and not the other 99.99% of other people who are large. And NFL linemen have dieticians that no one has
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Weight stigma is a result of weight bias. Weight bias refers to the negative ideologies associated with obesity. These can include laziness, lack of will power, a lack of moral character, bad hygiene, low level of intelligence and unattractiveness. Stigmatising beliefs and ideologies can lead to stigmatising acts.
Quote: People lack education and how they have been sheeped lol
Nothing new.
Honestly this is not surprising based on the amazing things the body is capable of.
It's almost like people never looked into history and maybe idk questioned societal logic.
Think for yourself but you don't have to, not everyone wants to learn new things. That's understandable.
Overweight on bmi and body fat is not healthy if your bmi is obese, but your bodyfat is under 20 (ish) you're fit
It's okay to have a high BMI if that's from muscle. Lots of people have a high weight with barely any body fat because of muscle.
I ran a mile in 14 minutes but I don't think can walk it in 15 minutes. That's too low of a number even if speed walking.
I went to the gym 3 times a week for 2hrs...
Then ran to pizza, cookies, chips.
I stayed up there on the scale
Is here someone overweight?🖐️
Being skinny does not equal fit and neither does being fat. BMI works good for diagnosing how unhealthy someone is by overweight but the fat to muscle ratio is what needs to be looked at for fitness.
I always feel better when fatter just not when so fat I can't move around good.
Why are all the critics making fun of the 15 minute mile when they can probably just do it themselves? 15 minute mile isbthe average for walking.... Why is that dude on the desk ragging on that. Judging from his physical appearance he couldn't even run one mile
Why is the doctor referencing the BMI as if it's a good scale to use? The BMI is ridiculous. According to the BMI, a 6"3" man should not weight any more than 199 lbs or he is considered overweight.
And before anyone says anything lowering your body temperature burns a certain type of fat cell used for heat absorption which is the easiest type of fat to burn.
Notice there is no mention of her body fat %.