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This article boils it down pretty good. Check it out:

HEALTH & FITNESS Thirteen lucky habits for physical fitness success Toledo Free Press, USA - Fit in exercise whenever you can. We recommend adults exercise a minimum of 30 minutes, three times per week. Aim for this amount, but don’t kick yourself …

This is more evidence that modern processed foods are the problem.

AFP - Glossy photographs in tourist brochures showing lean, fit and muscular Pacific islanders fishing with spears from canoes in azure lagoons and shimmying up coconut palms hide an ugly truth.

Why exercise and have an active life style? So you can live longer and better.

I have already explored why exercise makes your life better.

This study shows why it may make us live longer. And supports the findings in this story.

So guess what? Exercise is needed weather you have a weight problem or not.

Metabolic syndrome is:

a condition characterised by central obesity, hypertension, and disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism. The syndrome has been linked to increased risks of both type 2 diabetes and CVD.

This study shows that eating to much meat, fried foods and drinking diet soda leads to an increased risk of Metabolic syndrome.

How many people do you know order a double cheeseburger, fries and a diet drink?

I think this study has identified the symptoms not the cause. The foot cause lays in the first 5 words below: “The high calorie, low fiber “.

It seems to me that the problem is we, as a nation, eat to much for our level of activity and eat way too many empty calories.

Western diet pattern ‘promotes metabolic syndrome’ FoodNavigator.com, France By Stephen Daniells 08-Feb-2008 - The high calorie, low fiber dietary pattern associated with the Western diet is associated with an increased risk of …

We already know that having a beer belly is bad for your heart. Now, we might also know why.

Huuum maybe thats my problem

Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome and elevated blood pressure.

Good news for those of us who hate to run. Weight training may actually be better than just aerobic exercise.

Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - The team that made the find is now looking for signalling factors produced by muscle that could play a role in weight loss, since they might represent new … ‘Weight Training’ Reduces Fat And Improve Metabolism In Mice Science Daily (press release)

Heads up all you for a fat tax!! Looks like we need a skinny tax!!
AP - Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn’t save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars.

It appears that the science behind fat being bad for you has major flaws. Like it has never been proven:

The first scientific indictment of saturated fat came in 1953. That’s the year a physiologist named Ancel Keys, Ph.D., published a highly influential paper titled “Atherosclerosis, a Problem in Newer Public Health.” Keys wrote that while the total death rate in the United States was declining, the number of deaths due to heart disease was steadily climbing. And to explain why, he presented a comparison of fat intake and heart disease mortality in six countries: the United States, Canada, Australia, England, Italy, and Japan.

The Americans ate the most fat and had the greatest number of deaths from heart disease; the Japanese ate the least fat and had the fewest deaths from heart disease. The other countries fell neatly in between. The higher the fat intake, according to national diet surveys, the higher the rate of heart disease. And vice versa. Keys called this correlation a “remarkable relationship” and began to publicly hypothesize that consumption of fat- causes heart disease. This became known as the diet-heart hypothesis.

At the time, plenty of scientists were skeptical of Keys’s assertions. One such critic was Jacob Yerushalmy, Ph.D., founder of the biostatistics graduate program at the University of California at Berkeley. In a 1957 paper, Yerushalmy pointed out that while data from the six countries Keys examined seemed to support the diet-heart hypothesis, statistics were actually available for 22 countries. And when all 22 were analyzed, the apparent link between fat consumption and heart disease disappeared. For example, the death rate from heart disease in Finland was 24 times that of Mexico, even though fat-consumption rates in the two nations were similar.

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See it is not my bad eating habits. It is not the fact I do not exercise. Being fat is because I have a viral infection.

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“In that earlier work, the virus was spotted among 30 percent of obese individuals compared with just 11 percent of non-obese people.”

I saw this on the evening news.

Yes external forces can make it harder for some to lose weight than others. If control your diet and exercise then these road blocks become just bumps. Look at the 11% that are not obese.

The virus is an interesting finding though. It may lead to something that can help up to 30% of the obese. Any help will probably still require good old fashion “Eating right and exercise”