New York Times recently published the article 'Fat but Fit'? posing the question: can you be fat and healthy? This has been a long running debate, but more recently fatness has become more accepted. It's important to remember that if you're skinny, you are not necessarily healthy. Some thin people eat horribly and never exercise, but are just lucky with the genes/metabolism they were born with. Many may assume these people are healthy from their physique, but the truth is that they could be extremely unhealthy. Health itself does not look like anything. We know that obesity is an unhealthy disease and we can see it with the naked eye. But, having fat, and varied amounts, is usually just down to you metabolism and how your body happens to react to food or physical activity. Don't judge people's health from looking at them, because that is almost impossible.
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A New "Exercise Pill" Could Completely Replace the Fitness Industry
A new study shows that "exercise pills" may be the future. Rats were given pills that boosted endurance, increased metabolism, and burned fat all without actual exercise. The author of this study explains, "... you can improve endurance to the equivalent level as someone in training, without all of the physical effort.” With people working longer and longer hours, many just do not have the time to work out. Reaching the level of consistent recommended exercise is just not a reality for many at this point. Receiving the benefits one gets from exercising in the time it take to swallow a tablet may be the new answer. Of course, we do not know that this could ever be a reality as scientists are just in the very beginning stages of the drug. But, if an exercise tablet became a viable option, would you use it? We take vitamins to substitute absent nutrients in our diets. Could we do the same for the absence of exercise? Source