It's important to be thin and fit not just fit

The study results are in. If you want to reduce the risk of dying before your time, fat but fit isnt the way to go. Ditto for being slender but not fit. Fat and sedentary is the worst combination, of course. Lean and fit is the best way to live out your years.

Sounds logical, especially in view of all the recent hand-wringing about rising obesity rates. Nevertheless, whether exercise can overcome the risk of being over has been controversial, until now.

Early in 1999, Steven Blair, director of research at the Cooper Institute of Aerobics in Dallas, opined that fit and fat appears to
It's important to be thin and fit not just fit