Just a quick note to let everyone know that next week we are planning a series focusing on one of our favourite topics – metabolically healthy obesity. If you have any thoughts, questions, or comments on the topic before the series begins, feel free to post them here.
Travis
The Coming Soon: An Obesity Panacea Series on Metabolically Healthy Obesity by Obesity Panacea, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
TravisSaunders: ha! RT @jfletcher14: according to the University of Manitoba, I am an idiot #undergradGPA
COSDawg85 (Sam Callan): @sweatscience @TravisSaunders however the obesity rate in CO is still rising. We are just rising at a slower rate than other regions.
jfletcher14 (Jared Fletcher): @sweatscience @TravisSaunders altitude tents for everyone! Just cured obesity.
bitstofit (Darryl): @sweatscience @TravisSaunders interesting ... no wonder Houston has been named Men's Fitness' fattest cities a couple of times :)
pstriathlon (Paulo Sousa): @sweatscience @TravisSaunders That explains Florida!
sweatscience (Alex Hutchinson): Neat: the higher above sea level you live, the less likely you are to be obese. Real effect. http://t.co/H4p8MqzWi5 via @TravisSaundersjfletcher14 (Jared Fletcher): @TravisSaunders according to the University of Manitoba, I am an idiot #undergradGPA
ulaulaman (Gianluigi Filippelli): The DropSea Daily is out! http://t.co/XQgQ68xcEb ▸ Top stories today via @WikimediaItalia @fadesingh @TravisSaunders
JaniVaara (Jani Vaara): RT @TravisSaunders: Active transportation (e.g. walking or cycling) has dropped by 50% in a generation of Canadian kids http://t.co/050KTQi…
MrEpid (Atif Kukaswadia): @MuddyBrown This is actually a good way to get some physical act into your day. @TravisSaunders - it's no standing desk, but close! #PhDPA!
DaniellaSMF (DaniellaSMF): RT @TravisSaunders: Interesting (& depressing, especially for grad students) read on the state of Canadian science in 2013 via @InklessPW h…
Peter Janiszewski has a PhD in clinical exercise physiology. He's a medical writer/editor, a published obesity researcher, university lecturer, and an avid traveler. You can connect with Peter on Twitter. For more information please visit his website.
Travis Saunders is a PhD student researching the relationship between sedentary time and chronic disease risk in children and youth. He is also a Certified Exercise Physiologist and competitive distance runner. You can connect with Travis on Twitter and Google+. About Obesity Panacea
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A good review for everyone from Dr. Sharma’s website
http://www.drsharma.ca/are-healthy-obese-people-healthy.html
About 1.6% of the population is estimated to fit this category
I’ve got my fat fingers crossed…
Sure. Always interested in good analyses of “obesity paradox” in mortality studies of older people.
Thanks for bringing that up, Amby! We still haven’t made the obesity paradox the focus of a post, hopefully we can do that this week.
Travis
Kudos to you for your brave stance on this very important issue. This topic is so difficult to get across to the general public. I hope it reaches as many people as possible.
I’ve read your 3 posted stories so far, and am looking forward to reading the full series. However, I think a chart would be helpful for laypeople to understand some of your findings. In the 2nd part of your series you give the illness rates for the 20-30% metabolically healthy obese. What are the type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular illness rates for the 70-80% non-metabolically healthy obese? Putting all the data together would increase my understanding.
thanks for a very interesting series of articles.
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